Communications Major

It was a lie told in the critical state of Ohio in the final days of a close campaign -- that Jeep was moving its U.S. production to China. It originated with a conservative blogger, who twisted an accurate news story into a falsehood. Then it picked up steam when the Drudge Report ran with it. Even though Jeep's parent company gave a quick and clear denial, Mitt Romney repeated it and his campaign turned it into a TV ad.

A conservative politcial group led by Karl Rove has produced an ad that implies Barack Obama is too cool to be President. It targets younger voters who supported Obama overwhlemingly in 2008 and will probably do so again in 2012. It asks the question "After four years of a celebrity president, is your life any better?" and then offers undocumented facts like "1 in 2 recent college grads are jobless or underemployed" and "85%" of said former students have had to move back in with their parents. The ad, posted on YouTube, has a less than 200,000 views.