Fact-checking Clinton's DNC speech

Written By The USA Links on Thursday, 6 September 2012 | 13:55

(CBS News) CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In his 49-minute debate Wednesday night during a Democratic National Convention, former President Bill Clinton cited several statistics and done a series of presumably fact-based assertions. Here’s a demeanour during that claims reason adult underneath inspection and that don’t.

“Since 1961, a Republicans have hold a White House 28 years, a Democrats 24. In those 52 years, a private economy constructed 66 million private zone jobs. What’s a jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42.”

Since 1961, there have been 5 Republican presidents and 5 Republican presidents – serving, as Clinton said, a accumulative 28 years and 24 years, respectively. Here’s a relapse of a net pursuit origination underneath any one, according to information accessible on a Bureau of Labor Statistics:

Republicans:

Richard Nixon: + 7.1

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