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The latest Truth-O-Meter items from Tom Tobin
"We have more coal reserves in the United States than they have oil reserves in Saudi Arabia."
"We reduced abortion. We increased adoptions by 135 percent."
"I saved the taxpayers $2-billion on a bogus Air Force Boeing tanker deal where people went to jail."
"Our children's safety is potentially at risk because nearly half of the apple juice consumed by our children comes from apples grown in China."
"Going to public financing really disadvantages Democrats because you're not able to raise funds between the day you win the primaries and the time you're officially nominated."
"Fences have not worked. The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall. That's not good among peoples, especially friends like the United States and Mexico."
"When I was mayor of New York City, I encouraged adoptions. Adoptions went up 65-70 percent. Abortions went down 16 percent."
If African-Americans vote their percentage of the population in 2008, "Mississippi is suddenly a Democratic state."
Recent stories from Tom Tobin
Romney misses easy grounderAt the CNN/YouTube debate, the candidates argued about immigration, crime and Iraq. We found they generally got their facts right, although Huckabee distorted the facts on an education program for immigrants and Romney missed an easy one about the Red Sox.
The perils of public financingBill Richardson and other critics overstate the drawbacks of John Edwards' decision to take public financing
A divide over fencesTo illustrate his concerns about a fence between the United States and Mexico, Bill Richardson cites problems with the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall. But the history of those famous fences is not so clear.
Giuliani's "culture of life," definedGiuliani has been an adoption advocate, but now he says that's the same as being an abortion foe.
Obama: I'm a magnet for turnoutThe Democrat says he can draw black voters and young people to the polls in a big way, but experts have their doubts.
Tom Tobin, 48, has worked at the St. Petersburg Times for 19 years, serving much of that time as a government reporter. As the Times' state reporter, he covered the 2000 presidential recount in Florida. Over the next two years, he covered efforts to rewrite Florida's election law and retool its election machinery. Since 2003, he has been an education reporter, focusing on school board issues, school finance, the achievement gap and desegregation.
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