Romney to PolitiFact: There You Go Again

Published April 11, 2012 8:17pm ET



The Romney campaign is none too happy with PolitiFact at the moment, issuing a blistering response to a recent fact checking item on a campaign talking point. As a response to Democrats’ “war on women” rehetoric, the presumed GOP presidential nominee’s press secretary pointed out that under Obama’s presidency, women account for 92.3 percent of the job losses. This kind of statement—a bold claim involving an actual statistic—is catnip to media fact checkers. One would hope that the campaign double-checked their math. PolitiFact reruns the numbers:

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