In the Pennsylvania Senate race, Democrat Joe Sestak ran an ad attacking Republican Pat Toomey for seeking zero corporate taxation
Rating tax attacks in Pennsylvania Senate race
Republican Pat Toomey and Democrat Joe Sestak have beat up on each other with advertisements over tax policy. We sort through the charges.
A scorecard separating fact from fiction
"The states that actually have lots of teachers in teacher unions tend to be the states that have done the best in terms of academic success in this country."
Sharron Angle "would eliminate the Department of Education."
"Pat Toomey thinks corporations shouldn't pay any taxes."
McDonald's in England only sells organic milk and free-range eggs, which provides more nutritious offerings than in the U.S.
"Forty-five percent of those who've been unemployed, they've been unemployed for six months or longer."
"In this country, we have a 25 percent dropout rate."
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Tracking Obama’s promises
Promises we have rated recently
No. 126:
Begin removing combat brigades from Iraq
No. 525:
Introduce a comprehensive immigration bill in the first year
No. 299:
Eliminate disparity in sentencing for crack and cocaine
No. 491:
Provide an annual report on "state of our energy future"
No. 331:
Re-establish the National Aeronautics and Space Council
"More than half of our unemployed Ohioans have been out of work for six months or more."
— Rob Portman-
"Florida is enjoying its lowest crime rate in 39 years."
— Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist's "personal approval numbers are plummeting."
— Steven Schale-
"The Great Lakes Compact has a loophole. And the loophole is that while you cannot remove the water in a big transport, you can remove it in containers of 5.7 gallons or less."
— Dennis Kucinich
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"Congress and President Obama have accumulated more debt since he took office than the total amount of debt accumulated during the first 200 years of the United States existence."
— Chip Rogers
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