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Tag Archives: Mitt Romney
Romney and the Tax Return Precedent
Mitt Romney says he is following the “precedent” set by John McCain in releasing just two years of tax returns. That’s accurate. But McCain, the 2008 GOP nominee, bucked the trend of other recent presidential candidates. In more than three decades, no other nominees for either party have released fewer …
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Tagged financial disclosure, John McCain, Mitt Romney, tax returns
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Romney’s Bain Years: New Evidence, Same Conclusion
New reporting cites strong evidence that Mitt Romney wasn’t actively managing Bain Capital while he was running the Olympics, despite what the Obama campaign (and some news reports) would have voters believe. Dan Primack, a senior editor at Fortune Magazine, reports on previously confidential “offering documents” that Bain circulated to …
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Obama, Romney Surrogates Spin Jobs Data
A lackluster jobs report for June generated a flurry of false and misleading statements on the Sunday talk shows by surrogates for Obama and Romney: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, falsely claimed U.S. automakers “had a record June … 7,000 auto jobs created.” It’s true …
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Tagged Bobby Jindal, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, George W. Bush, jobs, Martin O'Malley, Mitt Romney, President Obama
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Post-Supreme Court Spin
Shortly after the Supreme Court upheld the federal health care law’s constitutionality on June 28, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney wrongly said the law “puts the federal government between you and your doctor.” The law doesn’t create a government-run medical system. Read more about Romney’s and President Obama’s false …
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FactCheck to Obama Camp: Your Complaint is All Wet
The Obama campaign complains that we got a key fact wrong in our June 29 article, “Obama’s ‘Outsourcer’ Overreach.” We strongly disagree. We find the Obama campaign’s evidence to be weak or non-existent, and contrary to statements Romney has made on official disclosure forms under pain of federal prosecution. The …
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Romney’s Immigration Exaggeration
Mitt Romney exaggerates when he says President Obama “did nothing on immigration” for three and a half years, even when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress. Obama supported and lobbied for the DREAM Act, which would have created a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants who were brought to …
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Tagged Dream Act, immigration, Mitt Romney, President Obama
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