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Deval Patrick
Deval Patrick
stated on September 4, 2012 a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
"By the time (Mitt Romney) left office, Massachusetts was 47th in the nation in job creation."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 21, 2012 a campaign email to New Hampshire press Aug. 21
Says under the Romney-Ryan budget ... "the American Opportunity Tax Credit for college tuition would be eliminated."
Mostly True
By Maryalice Gill • August 31, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on August 28, 2012 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa
Says the national health care law puts federal "bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor."
False
By Erin O'Neill • August 30, 2012
Stephanie Cutter
Stephanie Cutter
stated on August 29, 2012 a campaign email
"Mitt Romney’s platform ...won't protect the mortgage interest (tax) deduction for middle-class families."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • August 29, 2012
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on August 26, 2012 a TV interview
Mitt Romney "gave away his father's inheritance."
True
By Becky Bowers • August 27, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 18, 2012 a speech at Windham High School in New Hampshire
"His new running mate, Congressman Ryan, put forward a plan that would let Governor Romney pay less than 1 percent in taxes each year."
Mostly True
By Jake Berry • August 24, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 22, 2012 a campaign ad
"Mitt Romney says class sizes don’t matter."
True
By Molly Moorhead • August 23, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 20, 2012 a radio ad
"In Florida, they're already talking about how the Ryan-Romney plan will end Medicare and replace it with a voucher."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • August 22, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 9, 2012 a campaign event
Says Mitt Romney "wants to end tax credits for wind producers."
True
By Jon Greenberg • August 14, 2012
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on August 12, 2012 an interview on Fox News
"Mitt Romney is the first major party candidate for president of the United States in modern times not to release at least 12 years of tax returns."
False
By Amy Sherman, Jon Greenberg • August 14, 2012
Paul Begala
Paul Begala
stated on August 12, 2012 a Twitter post.
Says Mitt Romney said at a January 2012 debate that under Paul Ryan’s tax plan, "I’d have paid no taxes in the last two years."  
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 13, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 9, 2012 a campaign ad
"We do know that Romney personally approved over $70 million in fictional losses to the IRS as part of the notorious 'Son of Boss' tax scandal, one of the largest tax avoidance schemes in history."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • August 13, 2012
New Jersey Democratic State Committee
New Jersey Democratic State Committee
stated on August 1, 2012 a news release
"(The Tax Policy Center) found that Romney would raise taxes on the average middle class family by $2,000 to pay for $5 trillion in tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • August 12, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 2, 2012 a campaign ad
Says Mitt Romney "paid only 14 percent in taxes — probably less than you."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 9, 2012
Jay Carney
Jay Carney
stated on August 7, 2012 a press White House press briefing
"Gov. Romney himself, with 28 other Republican governors, supported policies that would have eliminated the time limits in the welfare reform law and allowed people to stay on welfare forever."
False
By Molly Moorhead • August 9, 2012
Priorities USA Action
Priorities USA Action
stated on August 7, 2012 campaign ad
Says Mitt Romney and Bain Capital are to blame in a woman’s premature death when they closed the plant where her husband worked.
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 9, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 4, 2012 a campaign ad
Says Mitt Romney opposes requiring employers to cover contraception and would eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood.
True
By Jon Greenberg • August 8, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 31, 2012 a TV ad
Says Romney would add "trillions" to the deficit while Obama would "cut the deficit by $4 trillion."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • August 7, 2012
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on July 31, 2012 an interview with the Huffington Post
Says Mitt Romney did not pay taxes for 10 years.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • August 6, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 1, 2012 a TV ad
Mitt Romney is proposing a tax plan "that would give millionaires another tax break and raises taxes on middle class families by up to $2,000 a year."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • August 3, 2012
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