Get the Best Analysis of President Barack Obama’s First Year in Office from PolitiFact
PolitiFact®.com is providing the most comprehensive analysis of President Barack Obama’s promises in his first year of office. It is the only political fact-checking site that is tracking more than 500 of Barack Obama’s campaign promises.
Washington, D. C. (PRWEB) January 18, 2010
PolitiFact®.com, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking Web site of the St. Petersburg Times, is providing the most comprehensive analysis of President Barack Obama’s promises in his first year of office (http://politifact. com/truth-o-meter/article/2010/jan/14/rating-obamas-promises-1-year-mark/).
The PolitiFact team produces the only political fact-checking site that is tracking more than 500 of Barack Obama’s campaign promises. He has taken steps to reduce the presence in Iraq, send more troops to Afghanistan and made good on other promises on green energy, education and transportation, the team reports. But other promises have stalled. All of Obama’s promises are rated on the ‘Obameter.’ (http://politifact. com/truth-o-meter/promises/)
“We have by-far hands down, the most complete account on how Obama has done on his promises,” said PolitiFact Editor Bill Adair.
Each promise is labeled as In the Works (275) or Stalled (87). Once an action is completed, PolitiFact rates it as Promise Kept (91), Compromise (33) or Promise Broken (14). There are also are some promises categorized as Not Yet Rated (2).
In a September 2008 campaign speech, President Obama said he expected to be held accountable. PolitiFact agreed and launched the unprecedented journalistic effort to track the campaign promises. PolitiFact is expanding and has opened affiliate opportunities to news organizations in other states.
Last week, PolitiFact launched a state site in Texas in a partnership with the Austin American-Statesman. PolitiFact® Texas (http://politifact. com/texas/) is integrated with the national site and uses PolitiFact’s distinctive Truth-O-Meter™ to rate the accuracy of statements by public officials in Texas.
About PolitiFact
PolitiFact®.com was launched in 2007 to fact-check the 2008 presidential campaign. In 2009, the site began fact-checking elected officials, lobbying groups, pundits and talk show hosts on issues such as climate change and health care. PolitiFact also launched the Obameter, a feature that tracks and rates more than 500 of President Barack Obama's campaign promises. It has received numerous awards, including the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, the Digital Edge Award for Best Overall News Site from the Newspaper Association of America, a National Press Foundation award for online journalism, and a Knight Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism.
The site is a product of the St. Petersburg Times, Florida’s largest newspaper with an average circulation of has an average circulation of 370,050 Sunday and 270,147 daily (ABC publisher’s statement 9/27/09). Considered one of the top 10 newspapers in the country, the newspaper has eight Pulitzer Prizes to its name, including two in 2009.
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