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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Federal Reserve Bank Ownership
Q: Who owns the Federal Reserve Bank? A: There are actually 12 different Federal Reserve Banks around the country, and they are owned by big private banks. But the banks don’t necessarily run the show. Nationally, the Federal Reserve System is led by a Board of Governors whose seven members …
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Overseas Fundraising Legal?
Q: Is it legal for candidates to raise funds overseas for a presidential race? A: Yes, but they can’t legally accept donations from individuals who are neither U.S. citizens nor permanent U.S. residents.
Posted in Ask FactCheck
Tagged campaign finance, fundraising, presidential campaign 2008
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Presidents Winning Without Popular Vote
Q: How many times was a president elected who did not win the popular vote? A: It has happened four times.
Wisconsin Judgment Day, the Sequel
In this second of our “Court Watch” series, we return to what’s become a racially charged campaign in Wisconsin to replace Louis Butler, the only black justice on the state Supreme Court, with a white, business-backed lower court judge, Mike Gableman. We look at two ads that attack Butler and find both to be misleading.
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Posted in Articles
Tagged Court Watch, Judicial elections, wisconsin, Wisconsin Supreme Court
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Republicans Go for Hillary in TX, Ohio Primaries?
Q: Did 10 percent of Hillary’s votes come from "Limbaugh Democrats" in the Ohio and Texas primaries? A: According to exit polls, she didn’t get that many of her votes from Republicans, and it’s hard to know how many of those she did get were the result of Rush Limbaugh’s …
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That Chain E-mail Your Friend Sent to You Is (Likely) Bogus. Seriously.
I’ve noticed that chain e-mails, particularly those about politics, have a lot of things in common: urgent and frightening messages; spelling errors; a tendency to blame mainstream media for not telling the real story; and false, misleading, utterly bogus, and completely off-base claims. If there was ever a case where …
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