Fact Checking the Debate: “It's Math” vs “You've Been President for Four Years”

Last night in Denver, President Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Romney met for the first of three scheduled presidential debates. You can watch the whole thing below.  Jim Lehrer came in with six broad questions about domestic policy — fewer than the nine originally proposed — but still only managed to get through five of them.  

Once you've watched the debate, you can get a sense of the "truthiness" of various statements from fact checkers around the web:

• FactCheck.org: Dubious Denver Debate Declarations: Obama and Romney swap exaggerations and false claims in their first meeting
• PolitiFact: Fact Checking the Denver Presidential Debate
• Washington Post: Fact Checking the First Debate
• New York Times: Presidential Debate Fact-Check and Updates, Polls Show a Strong Debate for Romney
• NPR: Romney Goes On Offense, Pays For It In First Wave Of Fact Checks, NPR Reporters Examine Denver Debate

The Obama campaign had a swift debate response ad ready by this morning; the Romney campaign's YouTube channel didn't have a specific debate-themed ad at this writing.

Having looked at the wonkish "facts" of the debate, the watercooler moment had to have been Romney's impromptu declaration that he liked Big Bird, if Twitter is any indication: