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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 16, 2012 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on January 9, 2012 in comments to reporters in Concord, N.H.:
"What’s clear is (Romney) likes firing people."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 11, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 5, 2012 in an e-mail to the Los Angeles Times:
"President Obama has raised taxes 19 times."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 11, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 7, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Manchester, N.H.:
Says President Barack Obama has opened up no new trade relationships with other nations.
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on January 8, 2012 in an NBC-Facebook debate in Concord, N.H.:
Says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal went from President Barack Obama's desk to "the garbage can."
False
By Becky Bowers, Bill Wichert, Erin O'Neill, Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 7, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Manchester, N.H.:
"We're only inches away from no longer being a free economy."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on January 7, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Manchester, N.H.:
"I delivered a flat tax for my state. I took my state to No. 1 in job creation. With all due respect to what Rick Perry has said about Texas, we did a little bit better."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 28, 2011 in an editorial board meeting with an Iowa newspaper:
"Our income, our GDP per capita, is almost 50 percent higher than (it is for) the average European."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 6, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 3, 2012 in a web video advertisement:
Says he lived up to a 2008 promise when he "closed corporate tax loopholes that were sending profits overseas."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 5, 2012
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on January 3, 2012 in a speech after the Iowa caucuses:
Says a new national poll shows "the majority of the American people believe we should have a gold standard" for U.S. currency.
False
By Louis Jacobson, W. Gardner Selby • January 4, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 28, 2011 in a fundraising appeal:
"We don't take a dime from D.C. lobbyists or special-interest PACs -- never have and never will."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 4, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on December 29, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Today" :
Says he has "been able to attract independents and Democrats to win" elections in Pennsylvania.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 3, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 19, 2011 in a campaign event in Davenport, Iowa:
"No federal official at any level is currently allowed to say ‘Merry Christmas.’"
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • December 21, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 18, 2011 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
In a watershed 1958 decision, "the Warren court asserted by itself that the Supreme Court was supreme over the president and the Congress."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 20, 2011
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