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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of March 19-25.
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2012 Players Guide
Tag Archives: Crossroads GPS
American Crossroads/Crossroads GPS
Conservative-leaning group founded with help from Karl Rove and former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie.
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Posted in Players Guide 2012
Tagged American Crossroads, Crossroads GPS, Ed Gillespie, Karl Rove, Players Guide
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Dueling Economic Ads
A conservative group's ad makes the rise in unemployment under President Obama appear worse than it actually is. And in a counter-attack ad, a liberal group offers its spin on GOP economic plans. Crossroads GPS, which spent heavily in the midterm elections to defeat Democrats, is spending $5 million to …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Crossroads GPS, medicare, Priorities USA Action, stimulus, unemployment
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Crossroads & Unions
Crossroads GPS greatly exaggerates the earnings of unionized government workers in a new TV ad attacking unions and Democrats, including President Obama. The ad claims that government workers who belong to unions are paid "42 percent more than non-union workers." But the very study cited by the ad says the …
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DCCC, Crossroads Usher in 2012 Campaign
Less than a month after the new Congress convened, House Democrats and a conservative outside group traded accusations (some bogus, some not) in the first ads of the 2012 campaign. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee started …
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Health Care Spin — Again
As the election draws near, some conservative groups are making ever-wilder claims about the new health care law: An elderly man in a Crossroads GPS ad makes the death-panel-esque claim that the law “threatens our lives.” The 60 Plus Association …
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Posted in Articles
Tagged 60 Plus Association, abortion, American Action Network, Crossroads GPS, health care, health care reform, illegal immigrants, jail, medicare
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