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5:14 pm
Fri September 7, 2012

Akin dismisses claims he hasn't paid for TV ads

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U.S. Rep. Todd Akin (R-St. Louis).
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Republican US Senate candidate Todd Akin dismissed claims that his campaign hasn’t paid for TV ads that were set to be run.  KOMU-TV in Columbia reported Thursday that the station only received half the payment for a full week of Akin’s ads. 

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It's All Politics
7:21 am
Fri September 7, 2012

Five takeaways from the last night of the Democratic National Convention

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President Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for president at Time Warner Cable Arena on Thursday.
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Originally published on Fri September 7, 2012 10:25 am

If you missed the last night of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., we live blogged it here.

But if you want a quick review, we've compiled five things that struck us about the night:

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It's All Politics
7:17 am
Fri September 7, 2012

Fact checkers ding Obama and Biden for some spinning

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Vice President Biden and President Obama wave to the delegates Thursday night at the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
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Originally published on Fri September 7, 2012 8:52 am

"We heard some facts being spun" Thursday night when President Obama and Vice President Biden gave their acceptance speeches at the Democratic National Convention, report the watchdogs at FactCheck.org.

They and other independent fact checkers have compiled, just as they did at last week's Republican National Convention, a list of those things said by the two parties' standard bearers that don't quite add up or may give misleading impressions.

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