Latest Fact-checks in Families Clear Any Rating True Mostly True Half True Mostly False False Pants on Fire Full Flop Half Flip No Flip Any Speaker Any Date Range Last 3 Months Last 6 Months Last 12 Months 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Any Category Republican Party of Florida stated on October 20, 2008 in a campaign mailer: "Barack Obama has consistently voted against tougher penalties for criminals." Barack Obama stated on June 15, 2008 in a speech at a Chicago church: "More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children." Mitt Romney stated on November 28, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla.: "In the African-American community today, 68 percent of kids born are born out of wedlock." Mitt Romney stated on September 14, 2007 in an interview on MSNBC: "I have not changed my position on the (gay) marriage amendment or anything else related to marriage." Sam Brownback stated on September 5, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H.: In countries that allow gay marriage, the rates of heterosexual marriage "have plummeted to where you have counties now in northern Europe where 80 percent of the first-born children are born out of wedlock." Sam Brownback stated on September 5, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H.: "Currently, we're at 36 percent of our children born out of wedlock."
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Republican Party of Florida stated on October 20, 2008 in a campaign mailer: "Barack Obama has consistently voted against tougher penalties for criminals." Barack Obama stated on June 15, 2008 in a speech at a Chicago church: "More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children." Mitt Romney stated on November 28, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla.: "In the African-American community today, 68 percent of kids born are born out of wedlock." Mitt Romney stated on September 14, 2007 in an interview on MSNBC: "I have not changed my position on the (gay) marriage amendment or anything else related to marriage." Sam Brownback stated on September 5, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H.: In countries that allow gay marriage, the rates of heterosexual marriage "have plummeted to where you have counties now in northern Europe where 80 percent of the first-born children are born out of wedlock." Sam Brownback stated on September 5, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H.: "Currently, we're at 36 percent of our children born out of wedlock."
Republican Party of Florida stated on October 20, 2008 in a campaign mailer: "Barack Obama has consistently voted against tougher penalties for criminals."
Barack Obama stated on June 15, 2008 in a speech at a Chicago church: "More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children."
Mitt Romney stated on November 28, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla.: "In the African-American community today, 68 percent of kids born are born out of wedlock."
Mitt Romney stated on September 14, 2007 in an interview on MSNBC: "I have not changed my position on the (gay) marriage amendment or anything else related to marriage."
Sam Brownback stated on September 5, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H.: In countries that allow gay marriage, the rates of heterosexual marriage "have plummeted to where you have counties now in northern Europe where 80 percent of the first-born children are born out of wedlock."
Sam Brownback stated on September 5, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H.: "Currently, we're at 36 percent of our children born out of wedlock."
