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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on January 9, 2012 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 15, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa:
"We’re $15 trillion now in debt, with a president that’s racked up as much debt as almost all of the other presidents combined."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 15, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa:
"I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on December 15, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa:
"After the debate that we had last week, PolitiFact came out and said that everything I said was true."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa:
In New York City, "an entry level janitor gets paid twice as much as an entry level teacher."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 12, 2011
stated on December 9, 2011 a column in the New York Times:
Newt Gingrich "has suggested" building "a mirror system in space" could improve the Earth’s habitability.
True
By Louis Jacobson • December 12, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa:
In 1993, Newt Gingrich "first advocated for the individual mandate in health care. And as recently as May of this year, he was still advocating" for it.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 11, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 6, 2011 a speech in Osawatomie, Kan.:
"Some billionaires have a tax rate as low as 1 percent."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2011
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