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Mitt Romney's flip-flops

Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Bill Adair , Louis Jacobson - May. 18 (Fact Check) - For the 2012 presidential campaign, we're using the Flip O-Meter to assess the statements of President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. This article includes links to the Flip-O-Meter items we've published on Romney. We'll update it as we publish more in the future.

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Mitt Romney Debt Speech Ignores Key Facts

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Tom Raum - May. 16 (News Analysis) - When Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney decried the "prairie fire" of U.S. debt Tuesday, he ignored some of the sparks that set...

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Obama says Romney would cut his own taxes while raising others’

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Molly Moorhead - May. 13 (Fact Check) - President Barack Obama says Mitt Romney is the anti-Robin Hood. In a campaign speech in Columbus, Ohio, on May 5, 2012, Obama said the Romney's economic plan would raise taxes for millions of low-income Americans while cutting them for the wealthy.

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Day After Obama Marriage Equality Move, Story Emerges of Teenage Romney Tackling, Cutting Hair of Boy He Believed to Be Gay

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Lauren Kelley - May. 10 (News Report) - The Post reports that five former classmates of Romney's recalled the incident independently. The former classmates, who span the political spectrum, called the act "vicious," "senseless," and "idiotic," among other things. One of the classmates, David Seed, ran into Lauber three decades later at an airport and apologized for not doing more to help him that day in 1965. Lauber, who has since died, reportedly told Seed, "It was horrible....It’s something I have thought about a lot since then." Predictably, the Romney camp is in denial mode.

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Checking Romney's secret weapon: Infographics

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Louis Jacobson - Apr. 26 (Fact Check) - As he struggles to overcome deficits among key demographic groups, Mitt Romney is consistently wielding one weapon: "infographics" chock full of statistics that seek to undermine Pres

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How Long Can Romney Keep Quiet About His Mormonism While He Panders to Evangelicals?

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Sarah Posner - Apr. 24 (News Analysis) - This transparent pandering is clearly aimed at the conservative evangelicals and Catholics he needs to energize in November, whose approval — and enthusiasm — is essential for a Republican presidential candidate to win. While Romney obviously doesn’t need to do much pandering to win over conservative Mormons, voters surely wonder: Once he brings up religion, where does his Mormonism fit?

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Tax Tips with Mitt

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

ctj.org - Apr. 13 (Special Report) - Millions of Americans will spend part of this upcoming weekend trying to navigate tax preparation software or filling out the actual paper forms to file their income tax returns before the Tuesday deadline. For those wishing they could pay less tax, outlined below are some tax planning ideas taken from a review of presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax returns.

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Fall Preview: Obama vs. Romney (and Ryan)

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Eugene Kiely - Apr. 07 (Fact Check) - 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”

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Romney Fundraising Pitch Skews Stats

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Ben Finley - Apr. 07 (News) - In a March fundraising letter to Floridians, Mitt Romney skews economic statistics under President Barack Obama. Among the letter’s claims: Romney says the numbers for unemployment, bankruptcies and foreclosures are “soaring.” That’s simply not true. They all started rising sharply under Bush, continued to rise for a time under Obama ...

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Did the Koch Machine Put Romney Over the Top in Wisconsin?

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Adele M. Stan - Apr. 04 (News Report) - To celebrate, Romney delivered a speech that seemed tailored to the agenda crafted by Charles and David Koch, the billionaire principals of Koch Industries, decrying government regulation, so-called entitlements (code for Social Security) and labor unions. At the Grain Exchange in Milwaukee, Romney was introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who has received over $65,000 in campaign contributions from Koch Industries PACs and its employees over the course of his career,

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Romney Gave Money to Race-Baiting Anti-Gay Group

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

care2.com - By Steve Williams - Apr. 03 (News Report) - A state political action committee for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney gave $10,000 to the National Organization for Marriage, an anti-gay group who it emerged last week had used race-baiting tactics in order to fight marriage equality.

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Mitt Romney's Mansion Has Its Own Lobbyist, Car Elevators

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Alex Seitz-Wald - Mar. 27 (News Report) - Politico reports that the home comes with a unique feature: Its own lobbyist. It turns out it can be difficult to get the city to approve a new 11,000-square-foot house with its own car elevators, so to help facilitate the construction, Romney hired San Diego attorney and registered lobbyist Matthew Peterson, paying him $21,500 since 2008. Reid Epstein reports:

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Obama Wanted Higher Gasoline Prices?

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Robert Farley - Mar. 23 (News) - Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have repeatedly lifted several quotes out of context to allege that President Barack Obama and his administration actually wanted to drive up the price of gasoline, and have succeeded. Gingrich said Obama wants gasoline prices to get to the European levels of … More >>

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Mitt Romney: President Barack Obama is "ending Medicare as we know it."

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Louis Jacobson - Mar. 22 (Fact Check) - Mitt Romney is trying to turn the tables on President Barack Obama by using a favorite Democratic line against him, accusing Obama of "ending Medicare as we know it." That's been a trusty line for the Democrats, with variations used in campaign commercia

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Santorum-boosting PAC Slams Romney, Obama

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Robert Farley - Mar. 17 (Fact Check) - 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.

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Former Mossad Chief Blasts Romney

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

lezgetreal.com - By Linda Carbonell - Mar. 07 (News Report) - In Halevy’s view, “If I’m sitting here in the month of March, 2012, reading this, and I’m an Iranian leader, what do I understand? I have nine more months to run as fast as I can because this is going to be terrible if the other guys get in. In the effort to demolish the president he is making he situation worse.”

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Super Tuesday guide: Finding truth in the attacks

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Becky Bowers - Mar. 04 (Fact Check) - As 10 states prepare to vote on Super Tuesday, here’s PolitiFact’s guide to the multimillion-dollar ad blitz. With the field down to four Republican contenders, campaigns and super PACs are attacking their opponents with hot-button allegations about supporting Planned Parenthood, Obamacare and even Nancy Pelosi that are designed to strike fear in the hearts of Republican voters. There's been some piling on. We've seen several examples where two (or more) candidates have made the same attack. The one candidate who hasn't been attacked much: Ron Paul. He's has been busy attacking others — but we didn’t find ads attacking him. ... >>More

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Iraq War And Afghan Conflict Harmed The Economy, Study Says

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - Mar. 01 (Special Report) - "Defense cuts are certainly a path to job loss, especially among our high-skilled workforces," the House Armed Service Committee's chairman, Howard "Buck" McKeon, has said. WASHINGTON -- Defense spending has boomed in the post-9/11 era, creating new jobs

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Outed GOP Sheriff Reportedly Had Relationship With Male Student While Running Abusive Private Boarding School

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - Feb. 27 (News Report) - Disgraced Arizona congressional candidate and GOP sheriff Paul Babeu is facing yet another round of unseemly charges. The Pinal County sheriff, who stepped down as Arizona's co-chair for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign amidst allegations he threatened a gay ex-lover with deportation, reportedly served as headmaster for the now-defunct DeSisto School in Stockbridge, Mass. from 1999 to 2001.

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Rick Santorum: "Over 40 percent of children born in America are born out of wedlock."

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Louis Jacobson - Feb. 24 (Fact Check) - During the Feb. 22, 2012, presidential debate in Mesa, Ariz., Rick Santorum offered extended comments on "the increasing number of children being born out of wedlock in America" and "teens who are sexually active." Santorum said, "What we're seeing is a

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Fact-checking the Arizona presidential debate

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Bill Adair, Angie Drobnic Holan - Feb. 23 (Fact Check) - Wednesday night's Republican debate in Arizona was a welcome return of our favorite show, but it ended with something of a cliffhanger. It was Episode 20, but because no more Republican debates are scheduled, it's possible it was the last of the season. The debate covered some familiar ground and had plenty of interesting new claims. We'll be updating this story as we post new Truth-O-Meter items. Mitt Romney repeated a couple of claims on the Democratic health care law that we've checked before. He said he opposed the law because, "I don't believe the federal government should cut Medicare by some $500 billion."

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Fact-Mauling in Mesa

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

FactCheck - By Eugene Kiely, Robert Farley, Lori Robertson, Brooks Jackson - Feb. 23 (Fact Check) - The four remaining GOP presidential candidates met in Mesa, Ariz., for another debate, and mauled a few facts. Rick Santorum claimed earmarks were done in an “open” process during his time in Congress. Mitt Romney said dispensing morning-after pills to rape victims was “entirely voluntary” for Catholic hospitals in Massachusetts. … More >>

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Super PACs Overtaking Campaign Fundraising

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jack Gillum - Feb. 21 (News Analysis) - An unmistakable dynamic is playing out in the money game among Republican presidential candidates: New "super" political action committees are growing more powerful than the campaigns they support. For two of the GOP front-runners, their su

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Sheriff Accused Of Trying To Deport Campaign Worker, Steps Down From Romney Campaign

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Elise Foley - Feb. 19 (News Report) - Republican Congressional candidate Paul Babeu, currently serving as a sheriff in Arizona, stepped down on Saturday from his position as the co-chair for the Mitt...

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What’s the ‘Real’ Jobless Rate?

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

FactCheck - By Robert Farley, Dave Bloom - Feb. 11 (Fact Check) - As the Obama administration basked in the news that the unemployment rate in January dipped to a three-year low of 8.3 percent, Republicans Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich threw a wet blanket on the announcement. Romney said the “real unemployment rate” was actually 15 percent, and Gingrich said that when you include people who have simply given up on trying to find a job, the rate “jumps up to about 12 percent.” Is the unemployment rate not the real unemployment rate? Neither Romney nor Gingrich put things quite right. But they are referring to legitimate yardsticks of “alternative measures of labor underutilization” put out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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