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  • FACT CHECK: Miscues with numbers in GOP debates

    CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press

    WASHINGTON — Ron Paul cited a staggering number in the Republican presidential debate Sunday — $15 trillion supposedly spent by the Fed "bailing out their friends." Like Mitt Romney and his claims about creating jobs in the private sector, Paul came up with that shocker by presenting an unbalanced look at balance sheets. A look at some of the claims in a pair of lively GOP debates on the weekend and how they compare with the facts: AP Photo/Charles Krupa Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and for...

  • FACT CHECK: Miscues with numbers in GOP debates

    CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press

    WASHINGTON — Ron Paul cited a staggering number in the Republican presidential debate Sunday — $15 trillion supposedly spent by the Fed "bailing out their friends." Like Mitt Romney and his claims about creating jobs in the private sector, Paul came up with that shocker by presenting an unbalanced look at balance sheets. A look at some of the claims in a pair of lively GOP debates on the weekend and how they compare with the facts: AP Photo/Charles Krupa Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and for...

  • Dems seek Clinton luster; move Obama's big speech

    CALVIN WOODWARD, JULIE PACE, Associated Press

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. — President Barack Obama swept into his convention city Wednesday, eager to accept his party's nomination and make the case for re-election despite a sputtering economy. He hoped to claim a little luster from Bill Clinton's prime-time address to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday. In a last-minute shift, the president ditched plans to deliver his acceptance speech before a throng of 74,000 at an outdoor stadium on Thursday, the convention's final night, citing iffy weather. With a chance of t...

  • Dems seek Clinton luster; move Obama's big speech

    CALVIN WOODWARD, JULIE PACE, Associated Press

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. — President Barack Obama swept into his convention city Wednesday, eager to accept his party's nomination and make the case for re-election despite a sputtering economy. He hoped to claim a little luster from Bill Clinton's prime-time address to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday. In a last-minute shift, the president ditched plans to deliver his acceptance speech before a throng of 74,000 at an outdoor stadium on Thursday, the convention's final night, citing iffy weather. With a chance of t...

  • In election's shadow, rally draws laughs, activism

    CALVIN WOODWARD HOPE YEN Associated Press

    CALVIN WOODWARD,Associated Press HOPE YEN,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the shadow of the Capitol and the election, comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert entertained a huge throng Saturday at a "sanity" rally poking fun at the nation's ill-tempered politics, fear-mongers and doomsayers. "We live now in hard times," Stewart said after all the shtick. "Not end times." Part comedy show, part pep talk, the rally drew together tens of thousands stretched across an expanse of the National Mall, a festive congregation o...