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Lee Fisher

Lee Fisher

Mostly False

Willingness to listen doesn't equal a slash and tax plan

Rob Portman’s "plan to tax, slash and privatize" Social Security "would devastate Ohioans."

John Kerry

John Kerry

Mostly True

By two measures, yes; by one measure, no

"We now actually import more oil than we did before 9/11."

Rick Perry

Rick Perry

Half-True

Contacts helped, but claim overreaches

"Bill White used D.C. connections from his job in the Clinton administration to form a company that did business in the Middle East and defaulted on a $60 million loan."

Marco Rubio

Marco Rubio

Half-True

Crist didn't have a mini-bar bender

"Crist stays in $2,000 a night luxury hotel suites where he racks up $1,300 in mini-bar charges, and doesn't pay for a dime of it himself."

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