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Mitt Romney accuses Newt Gingrich of calling Spanish a "ghetto language." Close, but not quite.
Here's where the 2012 Republican presidential candidates stand on a selection of issues.
Mitt Romney perpetuated one unsubstantiated claim, about his record at Bain Capital, and more or less corrected himself on another, about President Barack Obama's health care law, in the latest Republican presidential debate.
A look at where the 2012 Republican presidential candidates stand on a selection of issues.
Here's where the 2012 Republican presidential candidates stand on a selection of issues.
Newt Gingrich called rival Mitt Romney a "terrible historian" but flubbed his own history in Congress on Monday night when he claimed the nation ran four consecutive budget surpluses during his time as House speaker. Romney attacked Gingrich's financial links to Freddie Mac while ignoring his own.
It's become a case of the unsubstantiated vs. the discredited.
Executing a classic Washington dodge, Newt Gingrich told Americans that Medicare and Medicaid could be kept solid merely by ending fraud in the system, a promise of gain without pain that ignores the aging population and other great forces pressing on the programs.
A look at where the 2012 Republican presidential candidates stand on a selection of issues.
Here's where the 2012 Republican presidential candidates stand on a selection of issues.
Newt Gingrich overlooked a couple of years of red ink when he asserted Thursday night that he balanced the budget for four years as House speaker. And in claiming sole credit for the achievement, he glossed over the fact that budgets are not a one-man show: There was a Democratic president in town, too.
When Michele Bachmann accused Newt Gingrich in the latest Republican debate of once supporting a cap-and-trade program to curb global warming, he huffily denied it and told her she should get her facts straight.
A look at where the 2012 Republican presidential candidates stand on a selection of issues.
Here's where the 2012 Republican presidential candidates stand on a selection of issues.
Michele Bachmann did not intend to be taken literally when she told the Republican presidential debate Tuesday that civil-liberties activists have taken over the interrogation of terrorists from the CIA. But even as a rhetorical point, it didn't hold water.
Feisty and cagey, ex-President Richard Nixon defended his shredded legacy and shady Watergate-era actions in grand jury testimony that he thought would never come out. On Thursday, it did.
Businessman Herman Cain contradicted himself on torture, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney offered a prescription for challenging China that didn't add up and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich seemed to forget about crucial help by Pakistani intelligence in running down terrorists.
The Republican presidential candidates sound much alike in their zeal to shrink government, cut taxes and replace President Barack Obama's big health care law with, well, something entirely different. It takes some digging to see the distinctions.
Here's where the 2012 Republican presidential candidates stand on a selection of issues.
To hear some Republican presidential candidates tell it, the president's pen is a magic wand that can make "Obamacare" vanish in one day and sweep in cheaper health care, economic growth and lots of jobs in businesses freed from the health care law's heavy hand.
Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan ignited plenty of sparks in the Republican presidential debate Tuesday night, as did testy exchanges between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. In those instances and more, the facts took a bit of a beating.
Is regulation strangling the American entrepreneur? Several Republican presidential candidates say so. The numbers don't.
Based in the Yemeni tribal hinterlands but possessing global ambitions, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has become the most active and lethal of the affiliates to emerge from the shadow of Osama bin Laden's old network. Now the deadly U.S. attack on its leadership has complicated its prospects.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry declared in the latest Republican presidential debate that he had never advocated turning Social Security over to the states. His denial was hard to fathom given his past rhetoric about the program.
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