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Tag Archives: presidential debate
False Claims in Final Debate
In the third and final Obama-Romney debate, the candidates again contradicted each other, while each offered incorrect or twisted factual claims. President Obama erred when he accused Mitt Romney of saying during the 2008 campaign that “we should ask Pakistan …
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Tagged afghanistan, Al Qaeda, auto bailout, Iran, Iraq, Mitt Romney, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, President Obama (42), presidential debate
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South Carolina Debate
We found several exaggerations and misstatements in the latest Republican presidential candidates’ debate. Romney issued a hollow threat to take China’s currency manipulation to a world body that doesn’t actually deal with overvalued money, and he claimed federal spending consumes more of the nation’s economic output than it really does. …
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Tagged Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, presidential debate, Republican National Committee
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100 Percent Negative?
Sen. Obama was somewhat misleading when he claimed 100 percent of Sen. McCain ad’s were negative. His claim is backed up only in so far as it regards a single week examined by the Wisconsin Advertising Project of the University of Wisconsin. In an Oct. 8 report, they concluded that, …
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Autism and Down Syndrome
Scores of readers have written in asking why Sen. John McCain had said several times during the debate that his running mate, Sarah Palin, knew about autism. McCain: And, by the way, she also understands special-needs families. She understands that autism is on the rise, that we’ve got to find …
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Tagged autism, Down sydrome, John McCain, presidential debate, Sarah Palin
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Full FactCheck.org Report on Last Debate Up
We stayed up all night, and into the morning, but we do have a full analysis of last night’s debate to show for our efforts. Feel free to check it out here and see all the items we found during our live coverage of the debate right here on The …
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Obama on Taxes
Obama said that “I want to provide a tax cut for 95 percent of working Americans.” He also said the cut would go to “95 percent of families.” The latter is correct. The Urban Institute-Brookings Tax Policy Center analyzed the two candidates’ tax plans and found Obama’s would cut taxes …
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$42,000 a year
McCain has claimed yet again that Sen. Obama “voted twice for a budget resolution to increase taxes on individuals making $42,000 a year.” As we’ve reported, a single taxpayer making more than $41,500 would have seen a tax increase, but a couple filing jointly would have seen no increase unless …
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Joe the Plumber
He certainly got plenty of airtime. For those of you who don’t know what that exchange was all about, McCain and Obama were referring to an impromptu encounter between Obama and Toledo, Ohio, plumber Joe Wurzelbacher. Jake Tapper, at ABC News, has the full video. The short version: Wurzelbacher is …
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John Lewis and the News
McCain was a bit off the mark when he said Obama did not repudiate the remarks of Democratic Rep. John Lewis. Obama did release a statement that said he “did not believe” McCain “or his policy criticism is in any way comparable to George Wallace or his segregationist policies.” But …
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Tagged George Wallace, John Lewis, John McCain, presidential debate, rallies
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