Author Archives: Brooks Jackson

AFL-CIO Democratic Forum

Posted on August 8, 2007 , Updated on August 14, 2007

Summary Seven Democratic presidential candidates appeared Aug. 7 in a nationally televised forum at Chicago’s Soldier Field, sponsored by the AFL-CIO. Once again, we found some claims that were wrong and others that were questionable. Sen. Joseph Biden said none of the others "has a better labor record than me." …
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GOP Candidates Debate, Round 2

Posted on May 16, 2007 , Corrected on May 17, 2007

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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Republican Candidates Debate

Posted on May 4, 2007 , Updated on May 7, 2007 , Corrected on May 6, 2007

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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Democratic Candidates Debate

Posted on April 27, 2007

Summary Eight Democratic candidates debated in South Carolina. We found some minor stumbles. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, explaining his call to show compassion for Palestinians, put a spin on the remark that differs from the way it was originally reported by an Iowa newspaper. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of …
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