Claim: Turns out, our initial post "Freddie, Fannie and Barack" was erroneous. We've struck out the incorrect sections from our earlier post. We said originally that Obama was the fourth largest recipient of donations from troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That's wrong. Our post was drawn from data from the Center for Responsive Politics' Web site, OpenSecrets.org. But the data we used were incomplete. We talked to a spokesperson from the Center for Responsive Politics who told us that looking at all election cycles since 1989 ,
Fact-check: Freddie, Fannie and Barack - Corrected - FactCheck.org
Verdict: turns out, our initial post "freddie, fannie and barack" was erroneous. we've struck out the incorrect sections from our earlier post. we said originally that obama was the fourth largest recipient of donations from troubled mortgage giants fannie mae and freddie mac. that's wrong. our post was drawn from data from the center for responsive politics' web site, opensecrets.org. but the data we used were incomplete. we talked to a spokesperson from the center for responsive politics who told us that looking at all election cycles since 1989 ,
Organisation: FactCheck.org
Author: Joe Miller
Date published: 2008-09-19T17:24:12