As we explore President Barack Obama’s campaign promises (all 514 of them!), the Obameter is seeing more red.
We’re busily trying to update all of the promises by Jan. 20, the one-year mark of his presidency, and are now digging into some of his more obscure pledges. As we do, we’ve found a fair number with little or no action.
Among the recent ones:
• His pledge
to raise the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour
. He has until 2011 to do that, but we’ve seen no action so far and have rated it Stalled.
• His promise to cut the cost of a typical family’s
health care premium by up to $2,500 a year
. Another Stalled.
• His promise to spend at least $50 billion by 2013 for
the global fight against HIV/AIDS
. That too has earned a Stalled.
We should note that the needle on the Obameter can move up and down, and it’s possible that a promise that earns a Stalled today could still ultimately be a Promise Kept. But our experience is that Stalled items more likely move to Promise Broken.
We’ll be following them all, so stay tuned.
Our Sources
See Obameter items.