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Stephanie Garry

Staff writer, St. Petersburg Times

The latest Truth-O-Meter items from Stephanie Garry

Mostly True

UPDATED: Eight houses for John & Cindy McCain

Barack Obama
Barack Obama

John McCain has seven houses.

— PolitiFact National on Friday, August 22nd, 2008

False

No shortage of choppers for floods

Barack Obama
Barack Obama

"Our National Guard, as we saw in the Midwest flooding, can't function as effectively as it could. I was talking to National Guard representatives. Fifteen of their 17 helicopters in this region were overseas during the flooding."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

True

Statistics don't lie in this case

Barack Obama
Barack Obama

"More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children."

— PolitiFact National on Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Mostly False

He had it wrapped up in March

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

"My husband didn't wrap up the nomination until June."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Half-True

'Very well' in Mass. and Calif.

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

"I did very well with young people in Ohio, Massachusetts, California."

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

True

McCain knew it would get him in trouble

James Dobson
James Dobson

John McCain "said publicly that Hillary Clinton would make a good president."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Recent stories from Stephanie Garry

The Guard is strained, but so are Obama's facts

Sen. Barack Obama used this summer's Midwest flooding to illustrate his point that the Guard and Reserves are overtaxed. Good point, bad example.
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Clinton's calendar miscalculation

History is not on Sen. Hillary Clinton's side with references to '92, '68 elections.
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