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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of May 7-13.
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Tag Archives: Mitt Romney
Deja Vu: The Latest Attacks from Santorum
The latest TV spot from Rick Santorum’s campaign recycles a veritable “Best Of” list of misleading claims about Mitt Romney’s record and positions. Regular readers of factcheck.org may recognize some claims as ones we have tagged as misleading, repeatedly. The ad says Romney’s health care law “included $50 abortions and …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged abortion, cap-and-trade, health care, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum
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Santorum’s Exaggerations
Why do politicians often exaggerate, when the truth would serve just as well? Rick Santorum had us asking that question of ourselves again when he made several puffed-up claims on “Fox News Sunday.” Arguing that a come-from-behind win is still possible in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Santorum …
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Does Santorum Care About Unemployment?
A new ad from the pro-Mitt Romney super PAC Restore Our Future plays a game of gotcha politics. It grabs a comment from Rick Santorum — “I don’t care what the unemployment rate’s going to be” — out of context to frame an attack on the former senator’s record on …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Mitt Romney, Restore Our Future, Rick Santorum, unemployment
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How Many Would Repeal ‘Obamacare’?
Mitt Romney says “most Americans want to get rid of” President Obama’s two-year-old health care law. Is he right? That depends on which poll-taker is asking the question, and how it’s worded. Romney made the assertion at a rally in Louisiana on March 23, marking the second anniversary of the …
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Romney Flubs Farmers Claim
Mitt Romney claims the Obama administration is telling farmers “what their 15-year-old sons and daughters can and can’t do on the family farm.” That’s not true. If anything, the Labor Department was considering telling farmers what their children can and cannot do on farms that others own or operate. And …
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Santorum-boosting PAC Slams Romney, Obama
Two new TV ads from a pro-Rick Santorum super PAC attack Mitt Romney and President Obama on Republican hot button issues: debt, taxes and oil. But the ads mislead on several fronts. One ad states that Romney supported …
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Romney: Foggy on FactCheck
Mitt Romney is a little unclear on the facts when it comes to factcheck.org — and what we and other fact-checkers have said about Rick Santorum. In the same CNN interview in which he made a somewhat premature claim that Santorum was at the “desperate end” of his campaign (just …
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Wrestling with the Truth on Santorum’s Lobbying
The Mitt Romney campaign lifts a Rick Santorum quote out of context to level a charge that Santorum is being untruthful about his lobbying history. The Romney campaign claims to have caught Santorum being “at odds with the facts” when he told CNN, “I was not a lobbyist.” The Romney …
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The ‘Bailout’ Santorum Denies
Rick Santorum says, “I didn’t vote for a steel bailout.” But in fact, the former Pennsylvania senator voted in 1999 for the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Program, which was dubbed a “bailout” by multiple news organizations at the time. The loan guarantee program Santorum supported was much smaller than the …
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