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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 21, 2011 in a television ad:
Says Barack Obama said, "If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 22, 2011
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on November 20, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal urged raising $2 trillion in new revenue.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 21, 2011
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 17, 2011 in Facebook:
1 percent of Americans are millionaires. 47 percent of House Reps. are millionaires. 56 percent of Senators are millionaires.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • November 21, 2011
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on November 9, 2011 in a tweet:
"Obama has (a) new Christmas tree tax."
Mostly False
By Janie Har, Louis Jacobson, Meghan Ashford-Grooms • November 20, 2011
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on November 13, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
After losing 750,000 jobs a month before this administration, the U.S. economy under Barack Obama has had 20 straight months of growth, has added 2.8 million jobs in the private sector and added "millions of jobs in manufacturing."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2011
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on November 12, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Spartanburg, S.C.:
"Torture is illegal by our laws. It's illegal by international laws."
True
By Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on November 9, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Michigan:
"By 2014, there will be one administrator for every teacher on college campuses in the United States."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead • November 14, 2011
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on November 8, 2011 in an interview on The Daily Show:
Solar and wind energy are "both cheaper than nuclear right now."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2011
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on November 9, 2011 in an interview with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show":
In April 2009 "the Democrats were in control, and the congressional (approval) rating was 40 percent."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on November 9, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Michigan:
"By 2015, we will be sending so much interest" to China that "we will be paying for the entire People's Liberation Army."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 10, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on November 9, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Michigan:
"The unemployment rate among (the) non-college-educated is well into the double digits in America. It's 4 percent or 5 percent for people who have college degrees."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 10, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on November 9, 2011 in a written opening statement for a debate:
Under President Barack Obama, "more Americans are in poverty ... than at any time since the Census Bureau began keeping records on it over 50 years ago."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 10, 2011
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on November 9, 2011 in tweet and blogs:
Obama creates new tax on Christmas trees, fees get passed on to consumers.
Mostly False
By Janie Har, Louis Jacobson • November 10, 2011
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on November 3, 2011 in a conference call with reporters:
Says Mitt Romney "is committed to overturning Roe vs. Wade, and he supports such amendments that define a life as beginning at the moment of conception."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • November 8, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 28, 2011 in a speech in Manchester, N.H.:
"We spend half a trillion dollars a year in tax preparation."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 7, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 30, 2011 in an interview:
Says Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on abortion rights.
True
By Louis Jacobson, Meghan Ashford-Grooms • November 5, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on October 28, 2011 in a web advertisement:
Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on gun control.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on October 28, 2011 in a web advertisement:
Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on abortion.
True
By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 25, 2011 in a speech at a fundraiser:
"I made a bunch of these promises during the campaign. ... We've got about 60 percent done in three years."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 1, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on October 28, 2011 in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer:
"Under Barack Obama's watch, we have expended $805 billion to liberate the people of Iraq and, more importantly, 4,400 American lives."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 31, 2011
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