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Mitt Romney
stated on November 21, 2011 in an interview with the editorial board of the 'Telegraph.':

Says he followed state law and the precedent of other Massachusetts governors when he erased electronic communications as he left office.

By Jake Berry • December 2, 2011

Rick Santorum
stated on November 29, 2011 in an op-ed in the "New Hampshire Union Leader":

The balanced-budget amendment once came within one vote of passing Congress but was defeated because of the no vote from a top Senate Republican, and Rick Santorum says he "stood up and called for him to resign his chairmanship."

By John Gregg • December 2, 2011

Newt Gingrich
stated on November 11, 2011 in remarks at Mandester, N.H. campaign headquarters:

"Community banks … are being destroyed by Dodd-Frank."

By Jon Greenberg • November 21, 2011

Joe Biden
stated on October 20, 2011 in speaking at New Hampshire’s Plymouth State University:

"The median income of a middle class family went down $2,100 from 2001 to 2007."

By Maryalice Gill • November 18, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on October 28, 2011 in remarks at the Cornerstone Action Dinner in Manchester, N.H.:

Under energy efficiency legislation sponsored by U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, "federal bureaucrats could take over the local building code enforcement in your city if so-called ‘green mandates’ are not complied with quickly enough."

By Jake Berry • November 15, 2011

Jon Huntsman
stated on November 1, 2011 in a speech on energy policy at University of New Hampshire:

The United States sends "$300 billion -- half our trade deficit -- overseas for oil to unstable and unfriendly regimes."

By John Gregg • November 8, 2011

Joe Biden
stated on October 21, 2011 in a talk at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, N.H.:

In Libya, "America spent $2 billion total and didn’t lose a single life."

By Jake Berry • November 3, 2011

Ron Paul
stated on September 30, 2011 in remarks at Politics & Eggs forum in Manchester, N.H.:

Every month since 9/11, there have been as many suicide attacks against the United States and its allies as there were in all the years leading up to 9/11.

By Maryalice Gill • October 24, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on October 1, 2011 in a forum in Hampton, N.H.:

"We cut property taxes by one-third in the state of Texas while I’ve been governor."

By Jake Berry • October 21, 2011

Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 in a debate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.:

Says Barack Obama "never worked in the private sector" before he was elected president.

By John Gregg • October 18, 2011

David Axelrod
stated on September 27, 2011 in a speech to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics:

Says Republicans want to cut education by 25 percent.

By Jake Berry • October 17, 2011

Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential primary debate:

Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it "can't build a factory in a non-union state."

By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2011

Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republicam debate in Hanover, N.H.:

When George W. Bush was governor of Texas, "the percentage uninsured went down." Under his successor, Rick Perry, "it's gone up."

By Louis Jacobson • October 13, 2011

Rick Santorum
stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidental primary debate:

The poverty rate for families in which a husband and a wife work is 5 percent, but in families headed by one person … "it's 30 percent today."

By Molly Moorhead • October 13, 2011

Jon Huntsman
stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.:

"The IRS is already planning on 19,500 new employees to administer" Obama’s health care mandate.

By Maryalice Gill • October 13, 2011

Herman Cain
stated on October 12, 2011 in an interview on MSNBC:

"Every worker pays 15.3 percent payroll tax."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 12, 2011

Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.:

Massachusetts has "less than 1 percent of our kids that are uninsured. You (Gov. Perry) have a million kids uninsured in Texas."

By Louis Jacobson • October 12, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on October 11, 2011 in a debate in New Hampshire:

"These 15 political appointees (on the IPAB) will make all the major health care decisions for over 300 million Americans."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 12, 2011

Jon Huntsman
stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.:

"I created a flat tax in the state of Utah. It took that state to the number-one position in terms of job creation."

By Louis Jacobson • October 12, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on October 11, 2011 in Republican presidential primary debate:

Says he "came to the Republican Party sooner in age" than Ronald Reagan.

By Molly Moorhead • October 12, 2011

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