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Fact-Checking the Debate

NPR

By Steve Inskeep

Published October 1, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

At last night's presidential debate, both candidates stretched, muddled, and sometimes even mangled the truth. NPR's Steve Inskeep sorts through the candidates' rhetoric in search of the facts.

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