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Latest Fact-Checks On Mitt Romney

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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 8, 2012 a campaign ad
As governor of Massachusetts, "Romney reduced unemployment to just 4.7 percent."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 11, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 5, 2012 a Web ad
"More Hispanics have fallen into poverty under Obama."
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By Molly Moorhead • June 8, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on May 16, 2012 a speech in St. Petersburg, Fla.
National debt plus unfunded liabilities adds up to $520,000 per American household.
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By Amy Sherman • May 22, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on May 4, 2012 an interview on "Fox & Friends"
"We should be seeing numbers in the 500,000 jobs created per month. (Creating 115,000 jobs, the total from April 2012) is way, way, way off from what should happen in a normal recovery."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 7, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on April 24, 2012 a graphic posted on his website
In the "Obama economy ... the youth unemployment rate is double the unemployment rate for all Americans."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on April 11, 2012 a campaign speech
"The number of new businesses started per year has dropped by 100,000 during this president’s term."
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By Alex Kuffner • April 22, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 8, 2012 an Atlanta campaign stop
"Twenty-five or 24 million people" are "out of work or stopped looking for work."
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By Eric Stirgus, Willoughby Mariano • February 10, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 4, 2012 a speech in Las Vegas, Nev.
"President Obama is shrinking our military."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 8, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 26, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Jacksonville, Fla.
"I've never voted for a Democrat when there was a Republican on the ballot."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 23, 2012 comments to reporters in Tampa, Fla.
"(Newt Gingrich) voted in favor of establishing the Department of Education, and yet he gets in a debate and says we should get rid of the Department of Education and send all the education issues back to the states."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • January 25, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 23, 2012 a debate in Tampa, Fla.
"When I was fighting against cap and trade, the speaker was sitting down with Nancy Pelosi on a sofa encouraging it."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • January 24, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 23, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Tampa
"The median income in this country has declined 10 percent in the last four years."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 23, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Tampa
"We have 25 million Americans out of work."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 19, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Charleston, S.C.
"I didn't inherit money from my parents."
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By Becky Bowers • January 21, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 16, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
"In campaigns in the past with Sen. McCain and President George W. Bush and others, they have tended to release tax records in April."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • January 18, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 6, 2012 a campaign mailer
"Since the passage of Obama's stimulus package, over 1 million additional jobs were lost and nearly 25 million Americans are out of work, are stuck in part-time work, or have given up looking."  
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By Amy Sherman • January 11, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 5, 2012 an e-mail to the Los Angeles Times
"President Obama has raised taxes 19 times."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 11, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 4, 2012 a news release
Barack Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray "is precisely what then-Sen. Obama claimed would be ‘the wrong thing to do.’"
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By Henry J. Gomez • January 11, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 4, 2012 a town hall meeting in Peterborough, N.H.
"You can hire lots of bureaucrats.  That’s what the president’s done.  He’s added 135,000 people to the government workforce."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 9, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 4, 2011 an Americans for Prosperity Foundation summit speech
Solyndra "had robots that whistled Disney songs. I'm not kidding."
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By Becky Bowers • November 17, 2011
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