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David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on June 19, 2011 a CNN interview
When Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts ranked 47th out of 50 states in job creation.  
Half-True
By Robert Farley • June 22, 2011
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on June 19, 2011 an interview on Fox News Sunday
"Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers? … Fox viewers, consistently, every poll."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 20, 2011
Turn Right USA
Turn Right USA
stated on June 13, 2011 a YouTube video
"Janice Hahn hired hard-core gang members with taxpayer money to be 'gang-intervention specialists.' She even helped them get out of jail, so they could rape and kill again."
False
By Robert Farley • June 20, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on June 13, 2011 a Republican presidential debate
Says an alternative to Social Security that operates in Galveston County, Texas, has meant that participants will "retire with a whole lot more money" than under Social Security.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 17, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 13, 2011 a Republican presidential candidate debate in New Hampshire
"Obamacare takes $500 billion out of Medicare and funds Obamacare."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 16, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 16, 2011 an appearance at a Tampa coffee shop
"This is the slowest job recovery since Hoover."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on May 5, 2011 a debate in South Carolina
The Medicare drug program "resulted in the program coming in 40 percent under budget. ... And the reason it was, is because the design was right." 
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 15, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on June 6, 2011 a Republican presidential debate
Says President Barack Obama "has put (up) a stop sign … against oil drilling, against any kind of exploration offshore or in Alaska."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 15, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"A large number of the uninsured earn $75,000 or more a year."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 15, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on June 12, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"The cost-of-living increase in Social Security is tied to wage inflation."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 13, 2011 a debate in New Hampshire
Then-Sen. Barack Obama "refused to raise the debt ceiling because he said President Bush had failed in leadership."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 14, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on June 13, 2011 a debate in New Hampshire
"There was a recent report out that the premiums for Medicare and the payroll withholdings are only paying about half the program. So it is not financially solvent."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • June 14, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 13, 2011 a debate in New Hampshire
"The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office has said that Obamacare will kill 800,000 jobs."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 14, 2011
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 12, 2011 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
The Obama administration has cut taxes on small businesses 17 times.
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • June 13, 2011
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on June 12, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"We have unemployment that rivals the Great Depression."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 13, 2011
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on June 9, 2011 a New York Times column
"The average unemployed American has been out of work for almost 40 weeks."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on May 26, 2011 a YouTube video
"When I became president and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, it was supposed to go bankrupt . . . We turned it around with common-sense business principles."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 10, 2011
Anonymous GOP critics
Anonymous GOP critics
stated on June 7, 2011 a web news story
Commerce Secretary nominee John Bryson "appears to endorse world government."
False
By Robert Farley • June 9, 2011
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 5, 2011 an interview with political commentator Roland Martin
By advocating new requirements for voters to show ID cards at the polls, Republicans "want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 9, 2011
Elijah Cummings
Elijah Cummings
stated on May 24, 2011 a congressional subcommittee hearing
The budget for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "is only about 1 percent of the amount banks generate just from late fees and overdraft fees."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 8, 2011
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