Latest Stories By Louis Jacobson

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Ad Watch: Claims about Romney’s jobs record filled with half truths

June 14, 2012

PolitiFact has often noted that economists say governors have a small effect their state's economy. For better or worse, the same thing was true when Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts.

 

Checking up on Obama’s campaign promises

June 12, 2012

Throughout the summer we'll be updating the promises we're tracking with the Obameter. Here's the latest on five of them.

Claims and counter-claims on Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts record

June 11, 2012

Romney boasts about his jobs record; Obama blames Romney for outsourcing. We check the facts.

In Context: ‘The private sector is doing fine’

June 8, 2012

Mitt Romney pounced on a comment that President Barack Obama made at a news conference that "the private sector is doing fine." Here's the statement in context.

The battle over job growth in Massachusetts

June 5, 2012

The Obama and Romney campaigns have been sparring over the former Massachusetts' governor's job creation record. We sift through the data.

A scorecard on the economy under Barack Obama

June 1, 2012

With the economy at the center of the presidential campaign, we check the numbers to see what's up and what's down.

Coming soon: PolitiFact’s scorecard on the economy

June 1, 2012

Coming today on PolitiFact is a scorecard of the U.S. economy under President Barack Obama.

Lots of heat (and some light) on Obama’s spending

May 25, 2012

Our fact-check on a Facebook claim that President Barack Obama isn't as big a spender as many people think drew lots of support from Obama backers and a barrage of criticism from opponents. We recap the debate.

Facebook post on target about Obama’s spending

May 23, 2012

A column in MarketWatch that busted stereotypes about the tax-and-spend Democratic stereotype was turned into a Facebook post that went viral. We checked the facts.

In context: Cory Booker and the ‘nauseating’ ads

May 21, 2012

Newark Mayor Cory Booker touched off a kerfuffle when he criticized the Obama campaign for hammering Mitt Romney over his record at Bain Capital. Booker's video response was interpreted as a backtrack. But how much did he really backtrack?

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