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Tag Archives: 2010 midterm elections
Down-to-the-Wire Deceptions
Attack ads, and the misinformation that comes with them, continue to swamp the airwaves. In fact, spending on ads in these midterm elections could top $3 billion, said Evan Tracey, whose Kantar Media-owned Campaign Media Analysis Group tracks political ads running nationwide. That cracks the $2.7 billion spent in 2008 – …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged 17th amendment, 2010 midterm elections, AFSCME, Bill Brady, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, DSCC, Eric Cantor, Joe Sestak, Ken Buck, Lisa Murkowski, Nancy Pelosi, Pat Quinn, privatization, Social Security, stimulus, student loans
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NRSC Eliminates the Positive
Making an endorsement seem like a condemnation isn’t an easy deception to pull off — but the National Republican Senatorial Committee has done it. In an ad attacking Democratic Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, the NRSC uses a series of highly selective quotes from a Denver Post piece: Bennet is "fighting …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged 2010 midterm elections, colorado, Michael Bennet, National Republican Senatorial Committee, NRSC
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Whoppers of Campaign 2010
Midterm elections are an embarrassment of riches for fact-checkers — this year more than others. With Democrats fighting desperately to keep control of the House and Senate, and a torrent of money from corporations and other undisclosed …
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Posted in Articles
Tagged 2010 midterm elections, Bailout, FairTax, health care law, Social Security, stimulus, taxes, whoppers
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Sales Tax Spin
Democrats are running misleading ads in several House and Senate races accusing Republicans of supporting a “23 percent national sales tax.” The ads fail to mention that the proposed tax — while controversial — is designed to replace all federal income …
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Toss-ups: Wayward Ads in Washington State
A Republican-leaning group, American Action Network, makes misleading claims in an ad portraying Democratic Sen. Patty Murray as pro-tax and anti-small business. Meanwhile, Murray goes too far in her attack on the complicated business …
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Posted in Articles
Tagged 2010 midterm elections, American Action Network, Dino Rossi, Patty Murray
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Angle’s Shocking – and Misleading – Viagra Claim
A new ad from Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle says that Angle’s opponent, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, "voted to use taxpayer dollars to pay for Viagra for convicted child molesters and sex offenders." That sensational claim hasn’t gotten any more true since the first time we addressed it, …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged 2010 midterm elections, Harry Reid, Nevada, Sharron Angle, Viagra
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The Chamber and Foreign Contributions
Q: Is illegal foreign money being filtered through the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to fund ads attacking Democrats? A: The chamber says dues money paid by overseas companies "is not used for political ads," but won’t discuss how it segregates those funds. Democratic and liberal groups want an investigation of …
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Posted in Ask FactCheck
Tagged 2010 midterm elections, chamber of commerce, foreign money
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DSCC Not Fighting Fair
In Connecticut’s Senate race, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is sponsoring a misleading ad that attacks Republican candidate Linda McMahon. It says McMahon, the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, "laid off workers, yet took millions in bonuses," and "spent thousands on lobbyists to get millions in tax breaks for …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged 2010 midterm elections, Connecticut, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, DSCC, Linda McMahon
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Dust-Up in Coal Country
West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is under fire from his Republican opponent, John Raese, for supposedly undermining the coal industry. Raese’s ad is misleading, though. Even the coal producers disagree with it. The two are competing to fill the last two years of the late Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd’s term. …
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Tagged 2010 midterm elections, Joe Manchin, John Raese, West Virginia
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Crossroads Jam-Up
The latest ads from the American Crossroads “super PAC” attack Democrats running for Senate seats in Colorado, Illinois, Ohio, Nevada, Missouri and New Hampshire. The ads contain a number of misleading and false claims. …
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Tagged 2010 midterm elections, Alexi Giannoulias, American Progress, American Reconstruction and Recovery Act, arra, Citizens United, Harry Reid, health care, Lee Fisher, Michael Bennet, Paul Hodes, Robin Carnahan, stimulus, super PAC, unemployment
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