Author Archives: Brooks Jackson

Hillary Worked for Goldwater?

Posted on March 27, 2008

Q: Did Hillary Clinton work for Goldwater? A: She was a high-school Young Republican and "Goldwater Girl" in 1964 but swung to supporting Democrat Eugene McCarthy’s campaign in 1968 and George McGovern’s in 1972.

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Overseas Fundraising Legal?

Posted on March 25, 2008

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.

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Obama’s Small Donations

Posted on March 19, 2008

Q: Was Obama correct to say 90% of his money comes from donors giving $50 or less? A: No. He gets more from small donors than either Clinton or McCain, but two-thirds of his money still comes from those giving $200 or more.

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Giving Hillary Credit for SCHIP

Posted on March 18, 2008

One of Clinton’s signature claims has come under fire from political foes, quoted by the Boston Globe, who say she doesn’t deserve credit for expanding federal health insurance for millions of children. We review the record and conclude that she deserves plenty of credit, both for the passage of the SCHIP legislation and for pushing outreach efforts to translate the law into reality.
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Clinton vs. Bush: Middle Income Taxes

Posted on March 13, 2008

Q: Do middle-income persons pay lower federal income taxes under Bush than they did under Bill Clinton? A: Yes, middle-income taxpayers pay less, but not nearly as much less as claimed in a widely circulated chain e-mail. Moreover, both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton propose additional middle-income cuts, contrary to …
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Secret Service Paying Clintons’ Mortgage?

Posted on March 10, 2008 , Updated on March 12, 2008

Q: Is the Secret Service paying the Clintons’ mortgage? A: No. And Hillary won’t get a full-salary Senate pension, either.

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Misleading Ads in Texas

Posted on March 4, 2008

Summary The American Leadership Project, an independent group raising large donations to support Clinton, is running two ads in Texas praising her health care plan. One misrepresents what factcheck.org said about her plan. Another plucks a positive phrase, movie review-style, from a decidedly mixed analysis. The first ad says factcheck.org …
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The Facts About ‘NAFTA-Gate’

Posted on March 3, 2008 , Updated on March 7, 2008

Clinton’s spokesman says a newly surfaced memo proves that Obama’s campaign issued false denials about sending a private message to Canadian officials to disregard his criticisms of NAFTA. The Obama camp says it’s all a misunderstanding, and the Canadian embassy in Washington says it regrets the whole thing.
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Cleveland Clinkers

Posted on February 27, 2008

The Clinton-Obama showdown debate in Cleveland produced several false, twisted or dubious claims, most of which we’ve heard and debunked before. Both Obama and Clinton claimed their health care plans would cut costs more than the other’s, and that experts back them up on that. But experts we talked to said the plans are too similar to predict which would save more, and two experts said neither plan can save nearly as much as the candidates claim.
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Clinton Edits ‘The Truth’

Posted on February 25, 2008

Hillary Clinton, stung by an Obama mailer that painted her as a supporter of the North American Free Trade agreement, is responding in kind with a barrage of postcards saying, “Ohio needs to know the truth about Obama’s position on Protecting American Workers and NAFTA.” But the mailer gives less than the whole truth.
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