So, you’ve heard the candidates speeches, maybe they inspired you. Maybe they didn’t.
But what about the facts? How accurate were those zingers the candidates threw out at their opponents?
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama accepted his party’s nomination Aug. 28, speaking before more than 84,000 people in Denver’s Mile High football stadium. Some of his comments were worthy of a ref’s yellow flag.
Sen. John McCain’s acceptance speech to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul on Sept. 4 was couched more in generalities than in specifics, offering fewer factual claims to check than we found in other speeches to the gathering. But we found some instances where the nominee strained the truth.
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