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Person: Mitt Romney

N.H. Debate: The GOP Field

January 6, 2008

Summary
Republican and Democratic candidates participated in double-header debates in New Hampshire Jan. 5 in advance of the state's first-in-the-nation primary. Republicans were up first, and they got a little wild with their swings:

Romney claimed that the 47 million Americans who lack health care are not covered because they say "I'm not going to play. I'm just going to get free care paid for by everybody else." Experts say that very few who are offered insurance turn it down and that the uninsured get worse care.

Huckabee’s Attack Ad Runs After All

January 3, 2008

 Summary
The ad Huckabee said he decided not to run has now appeared at least three times in Iowa anyway. It accuses Romney of being "dishonest" but shades the facts in the process.
Update, Jan. 4: The ad ran at least 10 times on four different stations in Davenport and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Huckabee campaign called those airings a mistake.
In another ad Huckabee claims to have signed the most broad-based tax cut in Arkansas history.

Romney’s Ridiculous Hyperbole

January 2, 2008

Summary
Romney says in a TV ad that the U.S. will see more change in the next 10 years "than in the last 10 centuries." More than since the Dark Ages? More changes than the advent of the printing press, railroads, constitutional democracy, penicillin, electricity, telecommunications and the Internet all put together? We don't think so.
A Romney spokesman said he didn't mean what he said as fact, calling the statement "a metaphor." We call it a ludicrous exaggeration.

More Mitt Malarkey

December 28, 2007

Romney repeats misleading claims about McCain’s stand on immigration and his own record on taxes.

Romney on Huckabee II

December 19, 2007

Romney attacks Huckabee again with false and misleading claims.

Romney on Huckabee

December 13, 2007

His ad strains to create black-and-white contrasts from blurry shades of gray.

Republicans Debate in Iowa

December 12, 2007

More exaggerations and misstatements in the final GOP debate before the Iowa caucuses.

GOP YouTube Debate Flubs

November 29, 2007

The CNN/YouTube debate among Republicans lacked any talking snowmen, but we did note a few false and misleading statements by the candidates.

Tough Guy on Immigration?

November 9, 2007

Mitt Romney casts himself as tough on illegal immigration in a new ad in which he says that, as Massachusetts governor, “I authorized the State Police to enforce immigration laws.” He doesn’t mention that his order never took effect.