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Tag Archives: Mitt Romney
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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‘Big Oil’ Backing Romney?
A pro-Obama TV ad says that “big oil” pledged $200 million to help Mitt Romney, making him the industry’s “$200 million man.” But that’s a pretty slippery claim. The fact is that there is no evidence that truly big oil companies like BP, Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. are …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Big Oil, Koch Industries, Mitt Romney, Priorities USA Action
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What Priorities USA Action Doesn’t Tell You
A pro-Obama super PAC’s new TV ad portrays Mitt Romney as a past and future threat to middle-class families. The statements it makes about Romney’s business dealings and tax proposals contain some truth — but don’t tell the whole story: The ad says Romney is proposing “a huge new $150,000 …
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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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Romney Attacks on Santorum’s Turf
Mitt Romney has put the brakes on a TV ad attacking Rick Santorum — one that highlights the blistering defeat the former Pennsylvania senator suffered in his 2006 reelection bid — as Santorum spends time with his ailing daughter. But with Santorum’s people announcing plans to head back to the …
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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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