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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 26, 2012 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 16, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.:
"More people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 17, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 16, 2012 a tweet:
"More Americans have lost their jobs under Barack Obama than any president in modern history."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead • January 17, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 13, 2012 a campaign ad:
Says Mitt Romney "runs away from Ronald Reagan."
Mostly False
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’s and Bain Capital’s profits from KB Toys, which later went out of business, were "described by the Boston Herald as ‘disgusting.’"
Mostly False
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 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
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