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Newt Gingrich
"Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid ...
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Newt Gingrich
"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every ...
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In July 1996, Mitt Romney helped locate the missing teenage daughter of a partner ...
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Newt Gingrich
Students today "take more years to get through" college.
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Rick Santorum "In 2006, I went out and authored a letter with 24 other senators asking ...
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Mitt Romney
"I've never voted for a Democrat when there was a Republican on the ballot."
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Rick Santorum "Romneycare … is a top-down, government-run health care system."
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Newt Gingrich
"We balanced the budget with the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and ultimately had four ...
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Republican-leaning states get more in federal dollars than they pay in taxes.
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Mitch Daniels
Says Steve Jobs was responsible for creating more jobs than the stimulus bill.
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Mitch Daniels
"Nearly half of all persons under 30 did not go to work today."
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Mitt Romney
"(Newt Gingrich) voted in favor of establishing the Department of Education, and yet he ...
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Barack Obama
"In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. Last ...
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Barack Obama
"(After the auto bailout) General Motors is back on top as the world’s No. ...
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Barack Obama
"Right now, American oil production is the highest that it’s been in eight years."
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"One out of every three automobile fatalities can be attributed to alcohol."
"Unemployment has fallen from 10 percent during the president’s first year in office to 8.5 percent today."
Since President Barack Obama took office, "2 million more Americans are out of work."
Siemens has been unable to fill approximately 200 skilled trade positions in metro Atlanta.
"We have cut crime across every single zone in the city of Atlanta by between 10 percent and 16 percent, depending on the zone."
"Right now in Georgia, nearly one in three leaving our prisons are re-convicted within three years."
"[N]early one in three primary care doctors are forced to limit the number of Medicare patients they see."
The planned expansion of Savannah’s port is a "jobs creating project."
"When [Mitt Romney] was the governor of Massachusetts, he performed 100 — and I’m not sure this number is right, but my mind says it’s about 180 gay marriages."
"Republicans are attempting to remove Barack Obama from Georgia’s Presidential Ballot in 2012."
"Five members of [the Common Cause Georgia] board accepted maximum campaign contributions."
When Georgia tightened its voter identification laws, the state sent a van and photographer to the homes of people who needed photo IDs and made them for free.
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"Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save $5 a day."
— Newt Gingrich
"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance."
— Newt Gingrich
In July 1996, Mitt Romney helped locate the missing teenage daughter of a partner at Bain Capital.
— Chain e-mail
Students today "take more years to get through" college.
— Newt Gingrich
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— Rick Santorum










