We add the public option to the Obameter

By Angie Drobnic Holan on Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 at 6:58 p.m.

Remember all that talk of the public option during the campaign? Neither do we.

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 .