{"id":784,"date":"2009-03-12T21:41:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T01:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/?p=784"},"modified":"2009-03-12T21:41:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T01:41:53","slug":"the-obameter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/the-obameter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obameter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really like the idea of this: PolitiFact has dug through the archives and tracked down all of the promises that Obama made on the campaign trail, and are basically tracking the progress on them in real time.<\/p>\n<p>At first this seemed unfair and unrealistic, but if you recall, Obama actually asked the American people to hold him to the promises he made.<\/p>\n<p>Answering the call, PolitiFact made the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/promises\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obameter<\/a>&#8216; which tracks Obama&#8217;s progress on each and every one of his 500 campaign promises.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/promises\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-785\" title=\"obameter\" src=\"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/obameter.jpg\" alt=\"obameter\" width=\"372\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/obameter.jpg 372w, http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/obameter-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fascinating to see numbers and ratings on these things.\u00a0 And honestly, looking at the numbers, he&#8217;s doing quite well.\u00a0 Check it out for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veryshortlist.com\/web\/daily.cfm\/review\/988\/Website\/the-obameter-list\/?tp\" target=\"_blank\">VSL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really like the idea of this: PolitiFact has dug through the archives and tracked down all of the promises that Obama made on the campaign trail, and are basically tracking the progress on them in real time. At first this seemed unfair and unrealistic, but if you recall, Obama actually asked the American people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[111,328,28,14],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nerdiness","tag-obama","tag-obameter","tag-politics","tag-vsl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}