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Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 the video "When Mitt Romney Came to Town":
Mitt Romney is "tearing down his 3,000-square-foot house to build an 11,000-square-foot house."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 the video, "When Mitt Romney Came to Town":
Mitt Romney has 15 homes.
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 11, 2012 a page on the Obama campaign website:
"Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich all say they would cut foreign aid to Israel — and every other country — to zero."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2012
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on January 9, 2012 comments to reporters in Concord, N.H.:
"What’s clear is (Romney) likes firing people."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • 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."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • 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
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 4, 2012 a New Hampshire town hall with voters:
As a result of welfare reform, "poverty levels went down to the lowest level ever for ... African-American children."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • January 9, 2012
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 8, 2012 a Republican debate in New Hampshire.:
Says President Barack Obama "is a socialist."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill Adair • January 8, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 8, 2012 an NBC-Facebook debate in Concord, N.H.:
The EPA was asked about an environmental citation for the city landfill in Nashua, N.H. but "didn’t know" why it was cited.
Mostly True
By Maryalice Gill • January 8, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 7, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Manchester, N.H.:
Says President Barack Obama has opened up no new trade relationships with other nations.
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 8, 2012 a Republican presidential primary debate:
Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan provides "pretty much" the same coverage that members of Congress receive.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Molly Moorhead • January 8, 2012
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on January 8, 2012 an NBC-Facebook debate in Concord, N.H.:
Says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal went from President Barack Obama's desk to "the garbage can."
False
By Becky Bowers, Bill Wichert, Erin O'Neill, Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 7, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Manchester, N.H.:
"We're only inches away from no longer being a free economy."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on January 7, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Manchester, N.H.:
"I delivered a flat tax for my state. I took my state to No. 1 in job creation. With all due respect to what Rick Perry has said about Texas, we did a little bit better."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 8, 2012 a presidential primary debate in New Hampshire:
Eliminating "Obamacare" ... "saves $95 billion a year."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Molly Moorhead • January 8, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 28, 2011 an editorial board meeting with an Iowa newspaper:
"Our income, our GDP per capita, is almost 50 percent higher than (it is for) the average European."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 6, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 6, 2011 a TV airing in Florida:
Says he "helped save" the Olympic games.
Mostly True
By Matt Clary • January 6, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 3, 2012 an Obama for America video:
President Barack Obama "put in place historic fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks to lower costs at the pump and reduce dependence on foreign oil."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • January 6, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 3, 2012 a web video advertisement:
Says he lived up to a 2008 promise when he "closed corporate tax loopholes that were sending profits overseas."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 5, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 5, 2012 a video ad:
Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it couldn’t build a factory in South Carolina because South Carolina is a right-to-work state.
False
By Jon Greenberg, Molly Moorhead • January 5, 2012
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