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Top 10 PolitiFact checks of claims by, and about, Barack Obama as he hies to Texas
8 May 2013
Just three of this year’s 10 most popular PolitiFact fact checks involving President Barack Obama, visiting the Austin area this week, stemmed directly from claims by Obama. Reader-favorite articles also drew on statements about Obama by House Speaker John Boehner, U.S. Sens. Rand Paul and Marco Rubio -- and even Mitt Romney way back in 2012. The articles, which were composed by PolitiFact in Washington, D.C., are arranged below based on the number of reader views of each one since January. No. 1 reader favorite House Speaker John Boehner says Obama, Democrats have no plan to replace sequester. Pants on ... >>More
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The Most Popular Fact-Checks of 2012
2 Jan 2013
With 2012 coming to a close, PolitiFact decided to look back at a few of your favorite fact-checks, as judged by online viewership, from a busy political year. In no particular order, here are a selection of the most read PolitiFact fact-checks of 2012. Fact-checking Mitt Romney At a Republican primary debate in January in South Carolina, Mitt Romney said the U.S. military was at risk of losing its military superiority, citing as evidence, "Our Navy is smaller than it's been since 1917. Our Air Force is smaller and older than any time since 1947." Romney may have been close ... >>More
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Julián Castro critique of Romney's advice sparked No. 2 readers' favorite
28 Dec 2012
When a Texan gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, the Texas Truth-O-Meter kicked into gear. Making a case for Barack Obama, San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro said the Republican presidential nominee lacked a common touch. "Mitt Romney, quite simply, doesn’t get it," Castro said in his Sept. 4, 2012, speech. "A few months ago, he visited a university in Ohio and gave the students there a little entrepreneurial advice. ‘Start a business,’ he said. "But how? ‘Borrow money if you have to from your parents.’" Romney said that, we found, rating Castro’s recap True. Peruse the full ... >>More
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Mailbag: Lie of the Year edition
14 Dec 2012
The Lie of the Year prompts some of the most spirited (and angry!) comments we get. So our selection of the Romney campaign's ad on Jeeps made in China as our Lie of the Year inspired a blizzard of responses. We didn't get as many comments as last year, when we selected the Democratic claim that Republicans wanted to "end Medicare," but once again criticism outweighed praise by a ratio of at least 20 to 1 -- and the language was just as passionate. Here's a sampling of the criticisms. The most popular alternative offered by readers was United Nations ... >>More
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Lie of the Year: the Romney campaign's ad on jeeps made in China
13 Dec 2012
It was a lie told in the critical state of Ohio in the final days of a close campaign -- that Jeep was moving its U.S. production to China. It originated with a conservative blogger, who twisted an accurate news story into a falsehood. Then it picked up steam when the Drudge Report ran with it. Even though Jeep's parent company gave a quick and clear denial, Mitt Romney repeated it and his campaign turned it into a TV ad. And they stood by the claim, even as the media and the public expressed collective outrage against something so obviously ... >>More