Latest Fact-Checks By Angie Drobnic Holan

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Mike Gravel
Mike Gravel
stated on September 26, 2007 in a debate in Hanover, N.H.:
"If we manufactured 5-million of these 2.5-meg windmills across the country, we could electrify the entire nation — the entire nation."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 2, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 12, 2007 in Clinton, Iowa:
"I opposed this war from the beginning. I opposed the war in 2002. I opposed the war in 2003. I opposed it in 2004 and 2005 and 2006."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 28, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 26, 2007 in Hanover, N.H.:
"There are 300,000 babies born deformed every year in this country because of women who are alcoholics while they're carrying those children to term."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 27, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on September 19, 2007 in a comment to reporters in London.:
"I'm probably one of the four or five best-known Americans in the world."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 24, 2007
Bill Richardson
Bill Richardson
stated on September 25, 2007 in :
"Bill Richardson is the only major Democratic candidate with a plan to withdraw all American troops from Iraq. All of the other major Democratic candidates support leaving American troops in Iraq indefinitely."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 23, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 8, 2007 in :
Obama "won health care for 150,000 people."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 20, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 17, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa.:
Half of all personal bankruptcies in America "are caused by medical bills."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 18, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 17, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa.:
"Each year, 18,000 people die in America because they don't have health care."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 18, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 17, 2007 in a speech in Des Moines, Iowa.:
Health insurance premiums "have almost doubled ... since 2000."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 15, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 14, 2007 in a television ad.:
"Joe Biden is the only candidate with a plan to get us out of Iraq and keep us out."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 9, 2007
Sam Brownback
Sam Brownback
stated on September 5, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H.:
In countries that allow gay marriage, the rates of heterosexual marriage "have plummeted to where you have counties now in northern Europe where 80 percent of the first-born children are born out of wedlock."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 6, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on April 26, 2007 in Stratham, N.H.:
"Senator McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts. Now he's for them."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 5, 2007
Sam Brownback
Sam Brownback
stated on September 5, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H.:
"Currently, we're at 36 percent of our children born out of wedlock."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 3, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on March 21, 2007 in Oklahoma City.:
"The failings in our civil service are encouraged by a system that makes it very difficult to fire someone even for gross misconduct."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 1, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on April 26, 2007 in Stratham, N.H.:
"(McCain) was opposed to ethanol. Now he's for it."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 23, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on April 26, 2007 in Stratham, N.H.:
"(McCain) said he was opposed to overturning Roe v. Wade. Now he's for overturning Roe v. Wade."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 23, 2007
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 22, 2007 in a radio ad.:
Barack Obama supported keeping troops in Iraq, but now he wants a "precipitous withdrawal" regardless of "conditions on the ground" or "consequences of a defeat for the United States," an RNC radio ad.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 22, 2007
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 22, 2007 in a radio ad.:
Hillary Clinton was against setting a deadline for withdrawal, but now she wants a "precipitous withdrawal" regardless of "conditions on the ground" or "consequences of a defeat for the United States," an RNC radio ad.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 22, 2007
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on June 5, 2007 in Manchester, N.H.:
"I'll tell you what I can tell this country: If they want a president who doesn't believe in God, there's probably plenty of choices."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 7, 2007
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