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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 10, 2012 in a briefing at the White House:
"Preventive care … saves money, for families, for businesses, for government, for everybody."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 10, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 4, 2012 in a speech in Las Vegas, Nev.:
"President Obama is shrinking our military."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 8, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 4, 2012 in a speech in Las Vegas, Nev., on Feb. 4, 2012:
"If you take into account all the people who are struggling for work, or have just stopped looking, the real unemployment rate is over 15 percent."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 8, 2012
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on December 14, 2011 in a television ad:
Newt Gingrich "was fined $300,000 for ethics violations."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2012
Pete Hoekstra
Pete Hoekstra
stated on February 5, 2012 in a website linked to a campaign ad:
"Since ObamaCare and the stimulus passed, the unemployment rate in the U.S. has increased."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 6, 2012
Chain email
Chain email
stated on January 30, 2012 in a chain e-mail and blog and Facebook posts:
In July 1996, Mitt Romney helped locate the missing teenage daughter of a partner at Bain Capital.
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 28, 2012 in comments at a campaign event:
Students today "take more years to get through" college.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 26, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Jacksonville, Fla.:
"I've never voted for a Democrat when there was a Republican on the ballot."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 26, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Jacksonville, Fla.:
"We balanced the budget with the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and ultimately had four consecutive balanced budgets."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2012
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on January 26, 2012 in a graphic circulating on the Internet:
Republican-leaning states get more in federal dollars than they pay in taxes.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2012
Mitch Daniels
Mitch Daniels
stated on January 24, 2012 in a Republican response to the State of the Union address:
Says Steve Jobs was responsible for creating more jobs than the stimulus bill.
False
By Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead • January 26, 2012
Mitch Daniels
Mitch Daniels
stated on January 24, 2012 in a Republican response to the State of the Union address:
"Nearly half of all persons under 30 did not go to work today."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 24, 2012 in the State of the Union address:
"In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 24, 2012 in the State of the Union address:
"Right now, American oil production is the highest that it’s been in eight years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 23, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Tampa:
"The median income in this country has declined 10 percent in the last four years."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 23, 2012 in a Republican presidential primary debate in Tampa, Fla.:
"Speaker Gingrich for 20 years supported a federal individual mandate" for health insurance.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead • January 24, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 23, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Tampa:
"We have 25 million Americans out of work."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 23, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Tampa:
"When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets."
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 18, 2012 in a campaign ad:
Says PolitiFact has said he "kept a campaign promise to toughen ethics rules."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 19, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 16, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.:
The U.S. military is at risk of losing its "military superiority" because "our Navy is smaller than it's been since 1917. Our Air Force is smaller and older than any time since 1947."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2012
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