A One-Stop Guide to Fact-Checking of Speeches and Debates in the Presidential Race
Here we provide links to over 80 FlackCheck.org digests of FactCheck.org’s assessments of the accuracy of statements by and about presidential candidates.
The Candidates’ Records
For fact-checkers’ assessments, click on the candidates’ names or the topic.
President Obama (D)
Statements about:
- Prevention and Public Health Fund and women’s programs
- Spending from Prevention and Public Health Fund
- Financial industry regulations
- Individual mandate as GOP idea
- Supreme Court precedents
- President Hayes and the telephone
- Republican energy efficiency plans
- The Taliban’s momentum
- Border Patrol and crossings
- Red tape
- Job growth
- Domestic oil production
Attacks on:
- Cost of ‘Obamacare’
- Number of single-mother families living in poverty
- Increase in single mothers living in poverty under Obama
- Number of women without health insurance
- Budget
- Keystone pipeline
- Domestic oil production
- Labor regulations
- A “government takeover” of health care
- Federal health care law costs
- The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and deficits
- His NASA policy
- Current size of the U.S. Navy
- Foreign trade
Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R)
- The ‘Boeing case’
- Taxes and small businesses
- Payment Advisory Board
- Cost of ‘Obamacare’
- Unemployment, foreclosures and bankruptcies
- Access to morning-after pill in Massachusetts
His Massachusetts health care law:
Attacks on Massachusetts health care law:
- A “government takeover” of health care
- Those seeking free care
- Abortion funding
- Medicaid subsidies
- Law’s “failure”
- Patients’ waiting times
- Role of government
- Premium costs
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R)
- Balanced budgets (Again!)
- Federal health insurance mandate
- Freddie Mac contracts
- Balanced budgets
- His resignation as House speaker
- His military deferment
Rep. Ron Paul (R)
- Earmark record
- Iran’s nuclear ambitions (Again!)
- His military service
- An attack on his position on Iran
Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R)
- Earmark process
- His rank as a fiscal conservative
- His attack on federal health care law costs
- His attack on use of the term “middle class”
- Attacks on him as a lobbyist
- His record on earmarks
- Whether he voted to let convicted felons vote
Historical Facts
- Current size of the U.S. Navy
- Unemployment under President Carter
- Seniors’ access to medical care in the ’60s
Issues
Abortion
- Gingrich on Planned Parenthood and Romney’s health plan
- Gingrich on abortion funding in Romney’s health plan
China
Cuba
EPA regulations
Gold standard
Health care insurance
- Romney on a “government takeover” of health care under Obama
- Obama on individual mandate as GOP idea
- Santorum on a “government takeover” of health care
- Santorum on federal health care law costs
- Gingrich on federal health insurance mandate
- Santorum on free riders under Massachusetts law
- Santorum on Medicaid subsidies under Massachusetts law
- Santorum on Massachusetts law’s “failure”
- Santorum on patients’ wait times under Massachusetts law
- Santorum on role of government in Massachusetts law
- Santorum on premium costs in Massachusetts
- Romney on decreases in premiums under Massachusetts law
- Romney on insurance in Massachusetts before health law
- Romney on insurance premium costs
