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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 27, 2012 a campaign ad
Says Mitt Romney’s plan makes "catastrophic cuts to education."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • October 30, 2012
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
stated on October 24, 2012 in a TV ad
"We borrow $4 billion every single day, much of it from China."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • October 30, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 29, 2012 a television ad
Says Barack Obama "sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China" at the cost of American jobs.
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • October 30, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 26, 2012 a campaign mailer
"Women in Barack Obama's White House are earning less than men."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 29, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 10, 2012 a campaign ad
"Under President Obama: $4,000 tax hike on middle-class families."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • October 26, 2012
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring
stated on October 15, 2012 a Web video
Says GM used taxpayer dollars to prop up operations in China.
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 25, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 22, 2012 a presidential debate
"The sequester is not something that I've proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • October 24, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 22, 2012 a presidential debate
Says Mitt Romney wants to add $2 trillion to defense budget that the military hasn’t asked for.
True
By Jon Greenberg • October 24, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 22, 2012 the third presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla.
Says Romney said "we should ask Pakistan for permission" to take a shot at Osama bin Laden.
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • October 23, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 22, 2012 a foreign policy debate
Says Barack Obama was silent on Iran "when the students took to the streets in Tehran and the people there protested, (and) the Green Revolution occurred."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 23, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 22, 2012 the third presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla.
"Pakistan has 100 nuclear warheads and they’re rushing to build a lot more. They’ll have more than Great Britain sometime in the relatively near future."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 23, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 22, 2012 the third presidential debate
Says Mitt Romney "just gave a speech a few weeks ago" and said "we should still have troops in Iraq."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • October 23, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 22, 2012 the third presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla.
"Latin America’s economy is almost as big as the economy of China."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 23, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 22, 2012 the final debate
Says Mitt Romney was clear that he "would not provide government assistance to the U.S. auto companies, even if they went through bankruptcy."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 23, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 22, 2012 the third presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla.
"Veterans’ unemployment is actually now lower than (the) general population. It was higher when I came into office."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 23, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 22, 2012 the third presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla.
"I went to the Olympics that was out of balance, and we got it on balance."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 23, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 22, 2012 a presidential debate
"The president said he was going to create daylight between ourselves and Israel."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • October 23, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 22, 2012 a presidential debate
"A few months ago when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • October 23, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 16, 2012 the second presidential debate
Says a university survey concluded his Massachusetts administration "had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • October 22, 2012
Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
stated on October 10, 2012 in a mailer
Says Mitt Romney and George Allen "would overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to end safe, legal abortion even in cases of rape, incest or when a woman's life is at risk."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • October 19, 2012
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