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Mailbag: Lie of the Year edition

Readers react to this year's choice for PolitiFact Lie of the Year -- Mitt Romney's claim that Chrysler was going to move Jeep production to China at the cost of American jobs.

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Has Obama reduced the nuclear threat?

On Monday, President Barack Obama is set to address a symposium about securing nuclear materials in order to prevent them from being made into weapons. We recently checked eight promises by Obama from the 2008 campaign on such issues. Here's our rundown.

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Mailbag: Post-election edition

A look at what our readers have been saying about our recent Truth-O-Meter and Obameter items.

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Mailbag: ‘Count me disappointed’

A look back at some of the mail from readers that we've received in recent months, including claims made during the conventions and the debates.

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PAC’s newspaper ad makes multiple false claims about Obama

The ad from the Government is Not God PAC has run in papers in Ohio and Florida. We put its claims to the Truth-O-Meter.

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We update that page with new fact-checks throughout the news cycle.

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Fact-checking Romney’s private fundraiser remarks

Grainy video of Mitt Romney talking to big-dollar donors May 17  in Florida has the political world in a tizzy.
   
PolitiFact has looked into Romney’s remarks in the secretly recorded video and fact-checked several of the comments. Several abbreviated versions of those fact-checks appear below.    
   
Go to our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/politifact.georgia) for full versions of these and other fact-checks. Readers can comment on our rulings at the FaceBook site. Or find us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/politifactga).

We update that page with new fact-checks throughout the news cycle.

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Did the U.S. embassy in Cairo make an apology?

Returning to a frequent theme of his campaign, Mitt Romney on Wednesday charged that the Obama administration, through a statement released by the U.S. embassy in Cairo, made an "apology" to Islamic radicals. We take a closer look.

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Did the U.S. embassy in Cairo make an apology?

Returning to a frequent theme of his campaign, Mitt Romney on Wednesday charged that the Obama administration, through a statement released by the U.S. embassy in Cairo, made an "apology" to Islamic radicals. We take a closer look.

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