We add the public option to the Obameter

This week, alert readers asked us how we were rating President Barack Obama’s stance on the public option. That’s a promise, right? they asked.

Well, no. We looked in our Obameter database for a promise on the public option and couldn’t find one.

We are now adding a promise on the public option to our database. But make no mistake: The public option was rarely debated or even mentioned on the campaign trail. Read our

update

to find out more, as well as to learn

what we rated it

.