To be fair, sometimes inaccuracies are inevitable when you're trying to distill a complex issue down to a quick sound bite. A lot of the debate errors were in that category -- what they said was roughly true, but either out of context or otherwise misleading. Others were more murky -- like saying "23 percent of Democrats are so-and-so" when that figure was based on one recent study. There's a basis for saying it, but it's misleading to imply that it is established, proven fact.

In the debates I gave the candidates a pass if what they said was mostly true, or at least based on an actual source of some sort.

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