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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>
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>
He has recieved no delegates so far in the primaries and has endorsed [[Jesse Johnson]] for the nomination of the [[Green Party]]. <ref> http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/12/democratic-candidate-gravel-endorses-green-party-presidential-hopeful/ </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]