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FactCheck Mailbag
FactCheck Mailbag, Week of March 19-25.
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2012 Players Guide
Author Archives: Joe Miller
Myrtle Beach Blarney
Summary Another debate, another round of fact-checking. The GOP meeting in South Carolina was the third for Republican candidates in a week, but they haven’t run out of exaggerations or misstatements: Romney claimed Massachusetts gained jobs "every single month" he was governor after hitting a low point. In fact the …
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Tagged fred thompson, GOP debate, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani
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Huckabee’s Attack Ad Runs After All
Summary The ad Huckabee said he decided not to run has now appeared at least three times in Iowa anyway. It accuses Romney of being "dishonest" but shades the facts in the process. Update, Jan. 4: The ad ran at least 10 times on four different stations in Davenport and …
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Comparing Health Care in Canada to the U.S.
Q: Is health care better in Canada? A: Wait times are longer in Canada, but health and doctor quality don’t seem to suffer.
Republicans Debate in Iowa
Summary In the Dec. 12 Republican presidential debate in Des Moines: Arizona Sen. John McCain promised to make the U.S. “oil independent” within five years, a goal experts say can’t be achieved. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney claimed American students score in the bottom quarter among industrial nations, but they …
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Tagged Duncan Hunter, Iowa, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani
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Lost in Translation?
Summary The Republican presidential candidates met Sunday evening in Florida for a forum hosted by the Spanish-language media company Univision Communications. We found a few missteps in what the candidates had to say to Spanish-speaking voters: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee made some incorrect and questionable claims about Americans who …
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Radio Daze
Summary At the first all-radio debate of this election cycle, there were several factual faux pas by the Democrats at the table. Two candidates, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, were primarily responsible. Biden linked an $18-per-barrel increase in the price of oil to the Senate resolution declaring Iran’s Revolutionary Guard …
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Bush’s False Claims About Children’s Health Insurance
Summary President Bush gave a false description of proposed legislation to expand the 10-year-old federal program to provide health insurance for children in low-income working families. He said it "would result" in covering children in families with incomes up to $83,000 per year, which isn’t true. The Urban Institute estimated …
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Tagged George W. Bush, SCHIP, State Children's Health Insurance Program
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