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Fact Check dot Org looks at Democratic candidates errors in the last Iowa debate. Score: Richardson 3, Dodd 2, Obama 1. Follow the link for a detailed analysis.
- Richardson claimed “enormous progress†in New Mexico education, when in fact the state’s eighth-grade reading scores have slipped and remain among the worst in the U.S.
- Richardson exaggerated the extent to which his state’s teacher salaries increased.
- Richardson said one-third of U.S. health care spending goes to “administration and bureaucracy,†but Medicare officials put the figure at 7.4 percent.
- Dodd criticized “the Chinese government†for slave labor, when in fact it just sentenced a slaver to death.
- Dodd said University of Iowa costs have gone up 141 percent in six or seven years; we find they rose 81 percent.
- Obama claimed Medicare would save “a trillion dollars†if fewer Americans were obese. We find little support for that figure.
Later: Link fixed.
(Aside: None of these corresponds with this list of whoppers.)
