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Politifact just debunked a lie that was so effective that even DU believed it, in addition to right-wing blogs. It is about a claim that 85% of graduates have returned to live with their parents. American Crossroads is now blaming Obama for this BS stat.

From the article:

The statistic has been repeated many times on websites and blogs -- twice in the Huffington Post, for instance, and once in the personal finance blog PT Money. It even was picked up by bloggers both liberal (Democratic Underground) and conservative (Free Republic), each with their own political spin. We did not hear back from the author of the Time magazine article.

I googled the lie and found it in two posts here, with nobody bothering to find out the source, in the old DU.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1123239

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9369745

Nobody seemed to be curious back then about the source and methodology. Huffington Post, Time, etc. also swallowed the BS.

Let's be more skeptical, because this crap sometimes used against our side.