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Author Archives: Brooks Jackson
Florida Ad War: Mitt Pounds Newt
The air wars in a pivotal Florida Republican primary race have so far been a decidedly one-sided affair, with Mitt Romney and a pro-Romney super PAC saturating the airwaves for weeks with a slew of attack ads aimed chiefly at Newt Gingrich. …
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Tagged Newt Gingrich, Restore Our Future, Ronald Reagan, Winning Our Future
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Factual Flubs in Florida
The four remaining candidates debated once again, this time in Tampa, Florida — where facts took a beating. Mitt Romney falsely claimed the Navy is smaller now than at any time since the start of World War I. (It had fewer ships as recently as four years ago.) And Newt …
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South Carolina Smackdown
Facts were sometimes used as blunt instruments as the four remaining GOP presidential candidates hammered away at each other in the last debate before Saturday’s South Carolina primary. Santorum and Romney tangled …
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Tagged abortion, health care, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, President Obama, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, unemployment, veterans benefits
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Newt’s Faulty Food-Stamp Claim
Newt Gingrich claims that “more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history.” He’s wrong. More were added under Bush than under Obama, according to the most recent figures. The former speaker made that claim Jan. 16 in a Republican debate in …
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And Then There Were Five …
In a spirited debate, Republican candidates variously strained the facts on President Obama’s record on trade, tangled with each other over a misleading ad about allowing felons to vote, and erred on the history of the federal income tax. Otherwise, the five remaining GOP presidential candidates pretty much stuck to …
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Tagged Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, taxes, trade, voting rights
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Mitt the Ripper?
OK, we get the joke. But there’s a problem with the satirical TV spot that the Stephen Colbert “super PAC” is running against Mitt Romney in South Carolina. Romney didn’t bump off the companies that the ad jokingly claims he did. For those who haven’t been watching the Comedy …
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Tagged Bain Capital, Mitt Romney, Stephen Colbert, super PAC
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Mangled Facts in Manchester
Truth took a punch or two at the first of two GOP debates before New Hampshire’s critical presidential primary. Romney, talking about taxes, said federal, state and local government consume 37 percent of the economy today compared with only 27 percent when John F. Kennedy was president. In fact …
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Our Year-end Appeal
Update: As of Jan. 1, our total stood at $83,607. We will be processing additional late-arriving paper checks in the days to come, and will update again in a few days when we make our regular quarterly financial report. Thanks to all who made year-end donations. Your gifts will make …
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