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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of March 19-25.
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2012 Players Guide
Author Archives: Lori Robertson
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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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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Republican Candidates Debate
Summary Ten Republican candidates for president debated at the Reagan Library in California, the first GOP debate of the 2008 campaign. Here and there we found stumbles, spin and exaggerations, just as we did at the Democratic debate a week earlier. Giuliani claimed that adoptions shot up 65 to 70 …
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Tagged Duncan Hunter, John McCain, Mitt Romney, presidential campaign 2008, Rudy Giuliani
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