Lie of the Year 2011: Readers’ poll results

We received 9,214 votes in our readers’ poll. Here are the results:

The economic stimulus created “zero jobs.” — The National Republican Senatorial Committee and other Republicans

24%

Abortion services are “well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.”- Sen.  Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.  

17%

“Republicans voted to end Medicare.” — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and other Democrats

16%

Scientists are “questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. … (It is) more and more being put into question.” — Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry

11%

The vaccine to prevent HPV can cause mental retardation. — Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann

10%

President Obama “went around the world and apologized for America.”  — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney  

8%

“I didn’t raise taxes once.”  — President Barack Obama  

6%

Because of more restrictive voting laws, Republicans “want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws.”  — Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and head of the Democratic National Committee  

4%

Other (Suggestions varied widely: “Tax cuts for the top 2% create jobs!!! NOT!”, “That he OBAMA IS NOT A MARXIST WHEN HE REALLY IS!”, “All of the above”, “every time that Pres. Obama opens his mouth”, “Tax cuts and deregulation will create jobs – All of the GOP candidates.”)

2%

The Obama administration’s review of obsolete regulations was “unprecedented.”  — President Barack Obama  

1%

Congressional Republicans have introduced dozens of bills on social issues and other topics, but “zero on job creation.”  — Facebook posts  

1%