We continue our fact-checking of the first debate between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Our reports look at the federal budget, education, Medicare, taxes and the 2010 health care law.
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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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.
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.
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We update that page with new fact-checks throughout the news cycle.
Mitt Romney said his comments in a controversial video were "not elegantly stated." They’re also not entirely true. Our fact-checks of the surreptitious recording.
As we kicked into high gear for the party conventions, our readers were right there with us, challenging and cheering our work.
There's a lot of claims going around about Medicare on the campaign trail. We sort out the truth.
Is stimulus money paying for traffic lights on Chinese streets?
That's a claim made by Americans for Prosperity in a TV ad running in Ohio and seven other states.
The ad blames President Barack Obama for sending stimulus money overseas while Americans are out of work. The claim about traffic lights is the third one we've checked out.
A TV ad on the air in Florida says President Obama's economic stimulus sent tax credits to Mexico, Finland and China. But the facts tell a different story.
An ad from Americans for Prosperity is a case study in how to weave falsehoods, exaggerations and the occasional fact. We take a closer look.
Is your tax money paying for jobs in Finland?
That's one of the claims in an ad Americans for Prosperity is airing in eight states, including Ohio.
The ad takes aim at President Barack Obama, claiming that stimulus money was sent overseas while Americans are out of work. The claim about Finland is the second one we've checked out.
Americans for Prosperity takes aim at President Barack Obama in a ad running in Ohio and seven other states, claiming that stimulus money was sent overseas while Americans are out of work.
"Tell President Obama, American tax dollars should help American taxpayers," the narrator says. Instead, $2.3 billion in tax credits funded jobs in Mexico, Finland and China, the ad claims.
We checked it out the so-called funding for jobs in Mexico and found the claim somewhat incendiary.