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Tag Archives: President Obama
Do ‘Most Americans’ Agree with Romney on Gay Marriage?
The Republican party chairman claims “most Americans” agree with Mitt Romney “that marriage ought to be defined between one man and one woman.” Americans are closely divided on the issue. Various polls show either a slight plurality or majority of Americans support same-sex marriages, although sometimes within the margin of …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged gay marriage, Mitt Romney, President Obama, Reince Priebus
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Romney’s ‘Gross’ Exaggeration on ‘Obamacare’
Mitt Romney falsely claims government will “constitute … almost 50 percent” of the U.S. economy when the new federal health care law takes full effect. But Romney gets to 50 percent by erroneously counting all health care spending — private and public — as “effectively under government control once Obamacare …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged health care, Mitt Romney, President Obama, small businesses, taxes, unions
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‘The Life of Julia,’ Corrected
The Obama campaign depends on some false or dubious assumptions in its “Life of Julia” slide show. The infographic depicts a fictional woman whose life from age 3 to 67 is better under the president’s policies than under those of Republican Mitt Romney. But in reality …
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Posted in Articles
Tagged health care, medicare, Mitt Romney, President Obama, Social Security
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A New Front in the ‘War on Women’
Mitt Romney’s senior adviser Ed Gillespie distorted some economic facts on “Meet the Press” when he accused President Obama of creating a U.S. economy that is “hostile” to women. Gillespie said the “number of single-mother families living in poverty” is now the highest “in recorded history.” But poverty statistics date …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Ed Gillespie, health insurance, poverty, President Obama
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Obama Misquotes GOP Congresswoman
President Obama misrepresented the position of Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx on college debt. The president quoted Foxx as saying that she had “very little tolerance for people who tell me they graduate with debt.” But Foxx was speaking explicitly about those with very large amounts of debt, a fact that …
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Obama and the ‘Buffett Rule’
In their zeal to pass the “Buffett Rule,” President Obama and Vice President Biden leave the false impression that many, if not most, millionaires (people who earn $1 million or more a year) are paying a lower tax rate than the middle class. The fact is that even without the …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Mitt Romney, President Obama, taxes, warren buffett
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Fall Preview: Obama vs. Romney (and Ryan)
President Obama says Mitt Romney has embraced a budget that could throw hundreds of thousands of children out of Head Start classrooms, eliminate air traffic control services in some places, and “ultimately end Medicare as we know it.” Romney says that’s just “rhetorical excess” and …
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More Pipeline Piffle (And An Alaskan Absurdity)
The misleading assault on the president’s energy policies continues. A conservative group’s TV ad claims “we will all pay more at the pump” because the administration “blocked” the Keystone XL pipeline. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell claims that the pipeline “could have brought 700,000 barrels of oil to the market …
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Tagged american energy alliance, Keystone Pipeline, oil, President Obama
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Biden’s Manufactured Jobs Claims
Declaring “manufacturing is back,” Vice President Joe Biden gave a rosy — but not entirely accurate or complete — picture of U.S. manufacturing at a March 28 campaign stop in Iowa. Biden overstated — by 1.1 million — the number of manufacturing jobs lost before President Obama took office. He …
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Car + Ditch=Blame
We’ve already written about the 17-minute Obama campaign film. But did you notice how narrator Tom Hanks portrays the president as being above finger-pointing politics, claiming Obama “would not dwell in blame” for inheriting a huge economic mess? We did. Hanks, “The Road We’ve Traveled”: Not since the days of …
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