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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidential primary debate
Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it "can't build a factory in a non-union state."
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 10, 2011 a campaign ad
"Romneycare has … killed 18,000 Massachusetts jobs."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 14, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republicam debate in Hanover, N.H.
When George W. Bush was governor of Texas, "the percentage uninsured went down." Under his successor, Rick Perry, "it's gone up."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 13, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidental primary debate
The poverty rate for families in which a husband and a wife work is 5 percent, but in families headed by one person … "it's 30 percent today."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • October 13, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.
"The IRS is already planning on 19,500 new employees to administer" Obama’s health care mandate.
Pants on Fire!
By Maryalice Gill • October 13, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on October 12, 2011 an interview on MSNBC
"Every worker pays 15.3 percent payroll tax."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 12, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.
Massachusetts has "less than 1 percent of our kids that are uninsured. You (Gov. Perry) have a million kids uninsured in Texas."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 12, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on October 11, 2011 a debate in New Hampshire
"These 15 political appointees (on the IPAB) will make all the major health care decisions for over 300 million Americans."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 12, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.
"I created a flat tax in the state of Utah. It took that state to the number-one position in terms of job creation."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 12, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 11, 2011 Republican presidential primary debate
Says he "came to the Republican Party sooner in age" than Ronald Reagan.
True
By Molly Moorhead • October 12, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on October 11, 2011 Republican presidential primary debate
"Our government right now. . . (is) spending 40 percent more than what we take in."
True
By Molly Moorhead • October 12, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.
In the early 1960s, all levels of government were "consuming about 27 percent of the U.S. economy," a number that has risen to 37 percent today. With that trendline, "we cease at some point to be a free economy."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 12, 2011
Occupied Wall Street Journal
Occupied Wall Street Journal
stated on October 5, 2011 an article
"More than 25 million Americans are unemployed. More than 50 million live without health insurance. Perhaps 100 million live in poverty."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 11, 2011
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 10, 2011 postings on Facebook, blogs, and social-media sites
Say the ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay in the U.S. is 475 to 1.
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 10, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 6, 2011 a press conference at the White House
The Arab Spring … "drove up gas prices."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 7, 2011
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on September 28, 2011 an interview on "Democracy Now"
"Not a single banker, a CEO from Wall Street, anyone from corporate America — nobody, (there was) not one arrest of any of these people who brought down the economy in 2008."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 7, 2011
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 4, 2011 an interview with MSNBC
"Today, you have six financial institutions, the largest six, that have assets that are the equivalent of 60 percent of the GDP of the United States of America."
True
By Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2011
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on September 27, 2011 a speech to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics
"The typical white male worker in this country is making in real terms what he was making in 1973" and "the average worker is making what they were making in 1996."
Mostly True
By John Gregg • October 5, 2011
John Fleming
John Fleming
stated on October 3, 2011 an interview on Fox Business Network
Says Barack Obama is a "hypocrite" for criticizing President George W. Bush’s "drone attack program," then using it aggressively as president.
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2011
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on September 28, 2011 an interview on "The Daily Show"
Says the federal government hosted a conference and "ordered 250 muffins at 16 bucks a piece."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 4, 2011
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