Fact-checking the second Obama-Romney debate: Who told the biggest whoppers?

The facts and figures flew furiously in Tuesday night's debate. Not all of them were true

The candidates traded a range of facts, half-truths, and straight-up lies during the second debate on Oct. 16.
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Fans of political drama got a real treat in Tuesday night's town-hall rumble between President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The sparks flew as the candidates traded jabs, but the facts and figures did, too. And as in their last face-off, not all those numbers and assertions proved to be true — as the growing chorus of fact-checkers were quick to point out. Here, a survey of some of the biggest disagreements, and which candidate hewed closer to the truth:

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