Obama Promises, Myth or Reality?
So I had a spur of the moment facebook post earlier tonight: "Looking
back on politics since Obama won. It's not really that he failed to
deliver specifically on the change message so much as the establishment
on both sides was so much more entrenched that they both resisted and
made it so he could not change. As far as hard promises go though, he's
at like a 75% delivery rate."
It got a surprisingly positive reaction from people and little contesting, so now that I have a few minutes I actually went back to fact check myself so as to make a more accurate statement. According to politifact.com's Obameter, here is his record on campaign promises kept:
Promises Kept: 158 31.2%
Compromise: 49 9.7%
Broken: 54 10.7%
Stalled: 66 13%
In the works: 179 35.4%
Not Rated: 2
Thats 506 promises made with the unrated ones left out of the calcuations. Between the promises Kept, the Compromises to get the basics passed and in the works that is 76.3%, if you throw in the stalled ones that is 89.3% (452/506) at the minimum, good faith efforts to get them passed. Overall, that is very impressive and unfortunately, the change message failure overshadows it all.
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