Of Lieberman, Clinton, Giuliani and Perry, only Clinton came close to winning the nomination.
Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.
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What would count as true or false
True: in their nomination runs (Lieberman 2004 Democratic, Clinton 2008 Democratic, Giuliani 2008 Republican, Perry 2012 Republican), Clinton was the only one who came close to the nomination. Clinton finished a close second in pledged delegates and won many primaries, while each of the others withdrew early with few delegates and no serious path to the nomination. Mostly true: the same is broadly the case, but one of the others won some contests or briefly led national polls without coming near the nomination. Mixed: one of the other three also plausibly came close, for example by finishing second with a sizeable share of delegates. Mostly false or false: Clinton did not come close, or several of the others came about as close as she did.
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Evidence (4)
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E1 2008 Democratic Delegates | RealClearPolitics RealClearPolitics
“State Date Delegates Obama Clinton Total - 2229.5 1896.5 Super Delegates - 823 463 257 Pledged Delegates - 3434 1766.5 1639.5”
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E2 Lieberman ends 'quest' for White House CNN · 3 February 2004
“Lieberman, a senator from Connecticut, had been expected to compete well in Delaware on Tuesday, but with results in from nearly all precincts, he had earned only 11 percent of the vote.”
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E3 McCain Defeats Romney in Florida Republican Primary ABC News · 29 January 2008
“The outcome is a crushing blow to the presidential aspirations of Giuliani, who gambled his entire campaign on winning the Florida primary, effectively skipping the earlier state contests.”
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E4 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries - Wikipedia Wikipedia
“He performed strongly in polls, immediately becoming a serious contender, and soon displaced Bachmann as Romney's major opponent.”
Reasoning
E1 shows that Clinton finished a close second to Obama in 2008 pledged delegates (1,639.5 to 1,766.5), so she came close to the nomination. E2 shows Lieberman ending his 2004 campaign after weak results, including 11% in Delaware. E3 calls Giuliani's 2008 Florida loss a crushing blow to a campaign that had staked everything on that state. E4 says Perry polled strongly and became Romney's major opponent, but none of the evidence shows Perry or Giuliani winning contests, leading national polls or getting near the nomination.
Cite this claim
Nate Silver, “Of Lieberman, Clinton, Giuliani and Perry, only Clinton came close to winning the nomination.” (said 2015). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_a15c38af4044, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_a15c38af4044
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