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Tag Archives: Mitt Romney
Recycled Spin at New Hampshire GOP Debate
At the latest debate, the Republican presidential candidates repeated several claims they’ve made before. The candidates participated in a roundtable-style discussion at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, where they reiterated false and misleading lines about the federal health care law, the debt ceiling debate, job creation and more: Former Massachusetts …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged GOP debate, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry
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Revising Romney’s Revision
Rick Perry’s campaign claims Mitt Romney’s 2010 book “praises Obama’s $800 billion stimulus, while [the] 2011 edition calls it a ‘failure.’ ” Not so. It’s true that Romney revised his words in the paperback edition, but his original version said the stimulus was “far less than successful,” and that “it …
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Romney’s Health Care Law Killed Jobs?
The Perry campaign has been pushing a questionable claim that the Massachusetts health care law, signed by then-Gov. Mitt Romney in 2006, “killed 18,000 jobs.” But that number was churned out by an economic model used by a conservative think tank, and it’s unknown whether the figure is accurate. At …
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Fanciful ‘Facts’ At Fox News Debate
Nine Republican presidential candidates debated for two hours in Orlando, Fla., and they served up more exaggerations and falsehoods — about Obama, each other, and even Thomas Jefferson. Perry claimed Romney supports Obama’s Race to the Top education initiative. In fact …
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Posted in Articles
Tagged education, Gary Johnson, health care law, Herman Cain, Israel, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Ron Paul
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CNN/Tea Party Debate
The GOP presidential candidates debated for the second time in six days — tossing out a variety of false and misleading claims on everything from Social Security to vaccines for sexually transmitted diseases. …
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Tagged debt ceiling, health care, Herman Cain, immigration, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, Social Security, stimulus, taxes
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Social Security Silliness
Prior to the GOP debate in Florida, Republicans and Democrats alike floated false statements on Social Security. The Florida Democratic Party incorrectly says in a web ad that Mitt Romney "would privatize" Social Security, while Romney wrongly claims in a campaign flier that Rick Perry "wants to end Social Security." …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Florida Democratic Party, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Social Security
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Spinning Job Growth: By the Numbers
Romney, Perry and Huntsman each cherry-picked facts about job growth in their states when they were governor. Here we offer a broader look at the numbers, which sometimes tell a different story than the candidates. During the GOP presidential candidates' debate on Sept. 7: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney boasted …
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FactChecking Iowa Debate
Republican presidential candidates squared off in Ames, Iowa, on Aug. 11, offering claims, criticism and arguments. We found some false and misleading statements among them …
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Tagged debt, Herman Cain, Libya, Mitt Romney, mosques, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, unemployment
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Romney’s Run-in on Social Security
Mitt Romney gave a misleading answer to a question about Social Security during a feisty exchange with a heckler in Iowa. He said payroll taxes take 15.3 percent "out of your earnings," but only the self-employed pay that rate. All other workers pay half of that, with the other half …
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