Fact Checker Archive: Candidate Watch
Greatest Hits of the 2008 campaign
The original Fact Checker ended on the last day of the 2008 election campaign. These are a few of his favorite bloopers and howlers from the long, winding campaign trail.
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Michael Dobbs
| November 3, 2008; 9:55 AM ET |
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John McCain's 'Trick or Treat'?
The McCain camp has come up with a new villain to scare away votes from Barack Obama on the eve of Halloween: a professor of Middle East studies at Columbia University. Boo!
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Michael Dobbs
| October 30, 2008; 6:13 PM ET |
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Palin and the Maybe Pipeline
The McCain-Palin campaign talks about the "$40 billion" Alaska natural gas pipeline as if it is a done deal--when it does not even have a price tag.
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Michael Dobbs
| October 29, 2008; 6:31 PM ET |
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John McCain and the Middle Class
Barack Obama claims that the McCain tax plan will do nothing for "100 million American families." Where does he get his figures from?
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Michael Dobbs
| October 28, 2008; 7:09 PM ET |
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Obama's Redistribution 'Bombshell'
The McCain campaign is attempting to paint Barack Obama as a "Socialist" on the basis of a 2001 interview in which he spoke positively about "the redistribution of wealth." But the quotes have been somewhat garbled.
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Michael Dobbs
| October 27, 2008; 4:56 PM ET |
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Is Obama Guilty of 'Infanticide'?
Sarah Palin has accused Barack Obama of wanting to withhold medical treatment from children born alive as the result of bungled abortions. Obama says pro-lifers have "lied" about his record. The Fact Checker adjudicates.
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Michael Dobbs
| October 24, 2008; 4:47 PM ET |
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