The Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking website PolitiFact on Wednesday named Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's ad falsely claiming Chrysler Group LLC planned to move Jeep production to China as its "Lie of the Year." The site called the claim "brazenly false."The controversy — which began when a blogger misinterpreted a Bloomberg News story and Romney picked up the claim that Chrysler was considering moving all U.S. Jeep production to China — dominated much of the coverage of the presidential campaign's final two weeks.
"People often say that politicians don't pay a price for deception, but this time was different: A flood of negative press coverage rained down on the Romney campaign, and he failed to turn the tide in Ohio, the most important state in the presidential election," PolitiFact said.
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