Politifact.com

The 2009 bailout of General Motors and Chrysler still resonates in political campaigns.

President Barack Obama and his supporters say it helped revive the economies of states like Ohio. Critics including Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, say it saddled taxpayers with loans that still have not been paid back fully, and that market forces, not government intervention, should have been allowed to play out.

We won’t attempt to settle that here.

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