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How many times, and in how many ways has Mitt Romney lied — about everything from his own positions, to the President's policies and beyond? What does frightening success of Romney's deceptive campaigning — and the inability or unwillingness of the media to call out the Romney campaign for multiple lies — mean for American democracy?

From "You didn't build that!", to campaign ads, stump speeches, and the presidential debates, Dave Johnson documents the atrocities of Romney's calculated campaign of outright lies and ridiculous claims.

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Sensata is a company that makes sophsticated sensors that are a key technology for the automobile industry. Sensata is closing their Freeport, IL factory and moving all the equipment and jobs to China. The workers have to train their Chinese replacements or lose severance and unemployment benefits. The moving of equipment and closing of the plant is scheduled for the end of this year.

Bain Capital — the company that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney started — owns 51% of Sensata. Romney no longer runs the company, but retains significant investments, including chunks of the Bain funds that own Sensata.

Sensata workers have repeatedly asked Mitt Romney to talk with them, and help them save their jobs. So far, Romney has ignored them.

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"Etch-a-Sketch" Mitt Romney continues to reshape himself. Overnight, he's for allowing abortion in cases of rape and incest, after being against it. Now he's the savior of Medicare after being the scourge of the entitlement society.

But for all the shapeshifting, Romney's core worldview is clear, forged in the experience that made his fortune as head of Bain Capital. For this reason, the Campaign for America's Future has created bainofourexistence.com to provide a constantly updated resource of reporting on and analysis of Bain and Romney.

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