The Truth-O-Meter will be busy tonight. Check back late tonight or early tomorrow for our full coverage of the CNN/YouTube debate in St. Petersburg.
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Each of the candidates running for the Republican nomination for president claims to be a conservative. And each one is -- to a point.
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Romney and Giuliani cite different statistics on Massachusetts crime to make their points.
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PolitiFact will be taking a break for Thanksgiving, so we can fact-check whether the L-tryptophan in turkey really makes you sleepy. (We think some naps will help our research.) We'll be back with new items on Monday. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Clinton and Richardson are right that Americans are frustrated with long college aid forms, but their numbers don't add up.
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Once you accept some assumptions about how they did the math, the RNC does a pretty good job crunching Clinton's numbers.
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Rudy Giuliani blames President Clinton for the sad state of the intelligence budget.
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Barack Obama says John Edwards is new to populism, but a review of Edwards' political resume shows he has long argued the cause of regular people against economic elites.
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Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney tussled over "sanctuary cities" for illegal immigrants at the CNN/YouTube debate. But their attacks exaggerate the effects of municipal policies on immigration.
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The Democrats slugged it out in a Las Vegas debate. We found several claims were true, but Obama was wrong about the probability of lightning strikes vs. undocumented worker prosecutions and Richardson was way off about the popularity of Vice President Cheney and HMOs.
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Fred Thompson says Mike Huckabee raised lots of taxes in Arkansas. Huckabee responds that he cut taxes "almost 100 times." We find Thompson on solid ground but Huckabee stretching the truth.
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