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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of March 19-25.
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2012 Players Guide
Author Archives: Brooks Jackson
Republicans Debate in Iowa
Summary In the Dec. 12 Republican presidential debate in Des Moines: Arizona Sen. John McCain promised to make the U.S. “oil independent” within five years, a goal experts say can’t be achieved. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney claimed American students score in the bottom quarter among industrial nations, but they …
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Tagged Duncan Hunter, Iowa, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani
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Lost in Translation?
Summary The Republican presidential candidates met Sunday evening in Florida for a forum hosted by the Spanish-language media company Univision Communications. We found a few missteps in what the candidates had to say to Spanish-speaking voters: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee made some incorrect and questionable claims about Americans who …
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The ‘Democratic’ or ‘Democrat’ Party?
Q: Is it the "Democratic" Party or the "Democrat" Party? A: The proper term is "Democratic Party."
Bush’s False Claims About Children’s Health Insurance
Summary President Bush gave a false description of proposed legislation to expand the 10-year-old federal program to provide health insurance for children in low-income working families. He said it "would result" in covering children in families with incomes up to $83,000 per year, which isn’t true. The Urban Institute estimated …
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Tagged George W. Bush, SCHIP, State Children's Health Insurance Program
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Some Old, Some New
Summary The Republican candidates aired their views, claims and criticisms in yet another debate. We found a few mistakes and questionable pronouncements: Rudy Giuliani said 2,000 illegal immigrants was the most the federal government deported from New York City during any of his years as mayor. That doesn’t square with …
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The Immigration Showdown
Summary In recent weeks, Republican presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney have sparred over their immigration records and policies. We find some problems with what both of them have been saying. Giuliani released a radio ad in which he says of persons applying for citizenship, "we should make certain …
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Sunday Morning Missteps
Summary The Republican presidential candidates debated – and sounded some more false notes: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney falsely claimed U.S. job growth had been nearly 17 times faster than Europe’s. Actually, European Union employment grew faster than that of the U.S. last year. Romney’s source for the information told …
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Tagged John McCain, Mitt Romney, Presidential Election 2008, Republican presidential primary, Rudy Giuliani, Tom Tancredo
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GOP Candidates Debate, Round 2
Summary Claims, facts and figures flew at the second GOP presidential debate of 2008. Not all were true. For example: Mitt Romney claimed he didn’t raise taxes when he was governor of Massachusetts, failing to note that he increased government fees by hundreds of millions of dollars and shifted some …
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Tagged adoption, Duncan Hunter, FairTax, global warming, GOP debate, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, taxes, Tom Tancredo, Tommy Thompson
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