Over the course of the three 2012 presidential debates, President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney found themselves speaking out a number of untrue, unverified facts, as is the case with any type of in-the-moment, on-the-spot discussion. Check out our top 10 list of misrepresented facts during the three-part debate series.
10. Obama: “What I want to do is build on the 5 million job that we’ve created over the last 130 months in the private sector alone.”
The Facts: Only 4.5 million total jobs were created over the past 30 months, not to mention the 4.3 million jobs that were lost during the early months of the Obama administration.