What things are the Dems making up this week

Exaggerating Help for Troops
In a recent ad, Clinton claims members of the National Guard and military Reserve didn’t have health insurance until she and a GOP colleague took action. We find the ad misleading. In fact, active-duty Guard and Reserve troops already were covered by federal insurance, and four out of five non-active-duty guardsmen and reservists already were covered by their civilian employers or other sources. Clinton did help expand and enhance health care coverage for reservists but can't claim credit for creating coverage where none existed, as this ad implies.
Not Working 4 Edwards
A new ad sponsored by a labor union PAC in support of Democratic presidential candidate Edwards implies that the closing of an Iowa Maytag factory and the loss of 1,800 jobs are due to "tax breaks to companies that move jobs offshore." And it says Edwards would end such breaks.We found two problems:
The jobs didn't move offshore. They were actually sent to Ohio.
Eliminating the "tax breaks" in question probably wouldn't do much to keep jobs in the U.S.
Democrats Debate in Iowa
In the final Democratic debate in Iowa, we found:
Richardson claimed “enormous progress” in New Mexico education, when in fact the state's eighth-grade reading scores have slipped and remain among the worst in the U.S.
Richardson exaggerated the extent to which his state's teacher salaries increased.
Richardson said one-third of U.S. health care spending goes to “administration and bureaucracy,” but Medicare officials put the figure at 7.4 percent.
Dodd criticized “the Chinese government” for slave labor, when in fact it just sentenced a slaver to death.
Dodd said University of Iowa costs have gone up 141 percent in six or seven years; we find they rose 81 percent.
Obama claimed Medicare would save “a trillion dollars” if fewer Americans were obese. We find little support for that figure.