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2012 Players Guide
Author Archives: Robert Farley
Friends Lumped with Foes in Foreign Oil Debate
Republican presidential candidates Rick Perry and Jon Huntsman this week both exaggerated the extent to which the U.S. relies on imported oil from countries “hostile” or “unfriendly” to the U.S. Warning about over-reliance on foreign oil from countries that “don’t like us very much” is a bipartisan refrain. And it …
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A Father-In-Law’s Attack Ads
It’s not every day you see a guy sinking over a million dollars into political ads to attack his son-in-law’s opponent. But the truth-stretching in the ads? That’s all too common. The revelation that an in-law is the money behind a relentless campaign, featuring several attack ads, is the latest …
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Romney v. Perry in a YouTube Slugfest
Mitt Romney and Rick Perry are hammering each other with dueling — and distorted — YouTube ads. Romney’s ad says “unemployment has doubled on Perry’s watch” as Texas governor. That’s true. But it’s also true that Texas has bucked the national trend and now has a lower jobless rate …
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Romney’s ‘Magnet’ Charge Attracts Scrutiny
Mitt Romney claims that Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s support for an in-state tuition program has acted as a “magnet” to draw illegal immigrants to Texas. But there is strong evidence to the contrary. Romney, GOP debate, Oct. 18: You put in place a magnet to draw illegals into the state, …
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Americans United for Change
Americans United for Change is a liberal group whose message closely mirrors that of the Obama White House.
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Just the Fracking Facts
Rick Perry said he would “create another 250,000 jobs by getting the EPA out of the way” of natural gas drilling. But the EPA isn’t currently in the way: The very study on which Perry relies assumes that all of those jobs will result if current regulations are not changed. …
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Americans for Prosperity
A conservative group founded by billionaire businessman and political activist David Koch.
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Clearing the Air on Perry’s Record
Texas Gov. Rick Perry cites partly cloudy statistics to back up his boast that Texas is doing just fine cleaning its air on its own — without the EPA. Perry boasts that “we cleaned up our air in Texas more than any other state, during the decade of the 2000s.” …
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Make Us Great Again
Make Us Great Again is a “super PAC” supporting Rick Perry’s presidential bid.
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Revising Romney’s Revision
Rick Perry’s campaign claims Mitt Romney’s 2010 book “praises Obama’s $800 billion stimulus, while [the] 2011 edition calls it a ‘failure.’ ” Not so. It’s true that Romney revised his words in the paperback edition, but his original version said the stimulus was “far less than successful,” and that “it …
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