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Gravel received a "Pants on Fire" award from PolitiFact
==Presidential campaign==
==Presidential campaign==
On April 16, 2006, Gravel announced his presidential campaign at the National Press Club. He has become known, chiefly among Democrats and independent voters, for his statements of radical commitment to issues ranging from nuclear disarmament, citizen-initiated lawmaking, gay marriage recognition, and the lifting of discrimination against [[gay]]s in the military - to the reorganization of the tax and social security systems in the United States and the immediate cessation of US military involvement in Iraq. In a February 25, 2007 Washington Post/ABC News nationwide poll of voters who lean Democratic, found that Gravel had 0% support for the Democratic presidential nomination. During his primary campaign Gravel has been one of the most critical candidates of his own party, in a nationally syndicated Democrat debate, Gravel stated that the Democrat candidates "scare him."<ref>http://badgerherald.com/oped/2007/05/02/more_stale_rhetoric_.php</ref>
On April 16, 2006, Gravel announced his presidential campaign at the National Press Club. He has become known, chiefly among Democrats and independent voters, for his statements of radical commitment to issues ranging from nuclear disarmament, citizen-initiated lawmaking, gay marriage recognition, and the lifting of discrimination against [[gay]]s in the military - to the reorganization of the tax and social security systems in the United States and the immediate cessation of US military involvement in Iraq. In a February 25, 2007 Washington Post/ABC News nationwide poll of voters who lean Democratic, found that Gravel had 0% support for the Democratic presidential nomination. During his primary campaign Gravel has been one of the most critical candidates of his own party, in a nationally syndicated Democrat debate, Gravel stated that the Democrat candidates "scare him."<ref>http://badgerherald.com/oped/2007/05/02/more_stale_rhetoric_.php</ref>
Gravel received a "Pants on Fire" award from [[PolitiFact]] for this false statement during an August 2007 debate. {{cquote| In 1972, we had a 179,000 human beings in jail in this country. Today, it's 2.3-million, and 70 percent of them are black, African-American.}} The acual percentage of [[African-American]]s is 40%, not 70%. <ref> http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/25/ He's off, way off on who's in prison</ref>
==External links==
==External links==
*[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000388 Official biography]
*[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000388 Official biography]