Republican Retreads from Tampa

FactCheck.org covers the first day of the Republican Convention Republican Retreads from Tampa.

"On the first day of the Republican convention — marked by a delegate vote making former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney the party’s official nominee for president — we’re already hearing a lot of exaggerated, misleading or downright false claims that we’ve heard before.

The theme of the day centered on repeated misrepresentations of a quote from President Obama. From the various speakers we also heard:

A misleading statistic about women’s job losses that has grown so stale it is now wholly false.
More bogus claims about ‘raiding’ Medicare and the doctor-patient relationship under Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
A completely false claim that more than half of the younger generation is unemployed. (Actually, 86 percent who want work have it.)
More false claims that Obama blocked the Keystone XL Pipeline. Construction has already begun on the southern leg of the project, and the company says it expects approval for the Canada-to-U.S. leg early next year."