Below: Friends and family of Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, listen, in Wasilla, Alaska Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008, to Palin debate Democratic rival, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., during the vice presidential debate in St. Louis.
Update:
We have retracted a portion of our article, "FactChecking Biden-Palin Debate," and have posted the following correction:
Correction Oct 3: This article originally faulted Biden for saying that McCain had voted "the exact same way” as Obama on a controversial troop funding bill. We said that McCain was absent for the vote and so didn't vote at all. Biden was however correct.
McCain did vote against the troop-funding bill in question, H.R. 1591, on March 29, 2007, when it originally cleared the Senate. The vote to which we referred, and which McCain missed, was a later vote on the House-Senate compromise version of the same bill, on April 26, 2007. McCain opposed the bill, which Obama supported, because it contained language calling for withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Biden was responding to Palin's accusation that "Obama voted against funding troops." Obama voted for the bill March 29 and April 26, then on May 24, 2007, following a veto by President Bush, Obama voted against a similar troop-funding bill, H.R. 2206, that lacked any withdrawal language.
Please accept our apology for our error.
-Brooks Jackson
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