Reason magazine uses Obameter to analyze Obama

Posted by Angie Drobnic Holan :: Published on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at 08:13 a.m.

When we started tracking President Barack Obama's campaign promises, we hoped the ratings would provoke some interesting commentary. So we're intrigued by a new analysis from the Reason magazine blog.

Reason looked our ratings of Promises Kept and Promises Broken and judged which promises expanded government power and which reduced government power.

Reason editor Radley Balko wrote: "By my count (and some of this is certainly subjective) of the of the 31 promises the site says Obama has kept thus far, 20 in some way grow or expand the federal government. Just six make the government smaller, more transparent, or more accountable. The remaining five have no effect, or amount to a wash."

We're not specifically endorsing Balko's take here, but it's definitely the kind of new analysis we hoped people would be able to take from the Obameter.

Read Reason's blog post.