Latest Stories By Louis Jacobson

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Mailbag: Catching up on reader complaints, comments

As winter slogs on, we check the contents of our reader mailbag.

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What we’re watching: Ads in the runup to Super Tuesday

Whether on television or on the Internet, Republican presidential candidates are attacking each other in campaign ads. Some of the attacks are even true.

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Primary preview: Checking Santorum’s college claim

Super Tuesday, the multi-state primary day, is less than a week away. Ohio is one of the key states, so we're spotlighting statements from the GOP candidates.

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Did Obama say everyone should go to college?

Rick Santorum called Barack Obama a "snob" because he "once said he wants everybody in America to go to college." We check 18 Obama speeches and find that's not what he said.

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Primary preview: Checking Mitt Romney’s voting claim

The multi-state primary day, Super Tuesday, is less than a month away. Ohio is one of the key states voting that day, so we're spotlighting statements from the GOP presidential candidates.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said recently he "never voted for a Democrat when there was a Republican on the ballot."

We looked into it and found that's a matter of interpretation.

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Checking Obama’s promises on flexible-fuel cars

During the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama promised to boost the market for flex-fuel cars, which run on an ethanol-gasoline blend. We check how he's doing.

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Does Obama ‘demonize,’ ‘denigrate’ almost every sector of our economy?

Mitt Romney has adopted a new attack against President Barack Obama -- that the president "demonizes and denigrates almost every sector of our economy." We took a closer look by reviewing dozens of Obama's speeches and public remarks.

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Fact-checking the Republican response

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels offered the Republican Party's response to Tuesday night's State of the Union address. We checked it for accuracy.

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Fact-checking the Republican response

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels offered the Republican Party's response to Tuesday night's State of the Union address. We checked it for accuracy.

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Did Gingrich leave speakership “in disgrace”?

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are battling to define Gingrich's tenure as House speaker. We take a look at whether Gingrich left the top post "in disgrace."

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Were the early 1960s a golden age for health care?

In the Charleston, S.C., Republican debate, Ron Paul said that in the early 1960s, before the advent of Medicare and Medicaid, "there was nobody out in the street suffering (without) medical care." We looked back at statistical data to paint a portrait of how Americans handled health care back then.

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