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"I will keep taxes low and cut them where I can. My opponent will raise them." |
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"Senator Obama thinks we can achieve energy independence without more drilling and without more nuclear power." |
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"For four days in Denver, the Democrats were afraid to use the words 'Islamic terrorism.'" |
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Sarah Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States." |
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Obama is the Senate's "most liberal." |
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Barack Obama supports plans to raise "income taxes ... payroll taxes." |
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"Gov. Palin ... is somebody who actually doesn't believe that climate change is man-made." |
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"(Palin) supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000." |
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Sarah Palin "already has more executive experience" than Barack Obama and Joe Biden "combined." |
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Obama voted "to cut off funding for our American troops on the battlefield." |
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In the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama "has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done." |
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Joe Biden "voted against the first Gulf War. He opposed the surge. He wanted to partition Iraq." |
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When Sarah Palin was in government, Barack Obama was a community organizer. |
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"John McCain has voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time." |
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McCain "said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars." |
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"Today, we import triple the amount of oil than we had on the day Senator McCain took office." |
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McCain voted 19 times against a minimum-wage increase. |
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Three years ago, John McCain said, "Afghanistan — we don't read about it anymore in papers because it succeeded." |
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McCain "still thinks it’s okay when women don't earn equal pay for equal work." |
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"Obama says Iran is a 'tiny' country, 'doesn't pose a serious threat.'" |
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