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Obama exaggerates his record on campaign promises

President Barack Obama talked about what percentage of his campaign promises he's kept since taking office during an interview Obama gave to Rolling Stone.

"I keep in my pocket a checklist of the promises I made during the campaign, and here I am, halfway through my first term, and we've probably accomplished 70 percent of the things that we said we were going to do -- and by the way, I've got two years left to finish the rest of the list, at minimum," Obama said.

Our list (PolitiFact) has 506 promises. (That number has fluctuated very slightly since we unveiled it in 2009. We added a few promises we hadn't noticed when we first made the list, and we deleted a few unintentional duplicates.) As of this writing, Obama has kept 122 promises by our reckoning, or 24 percent.

So has Obama kept 70 percent of his promises? Not by our reckoning. We should also note that Obama is probably more generous in awarding himself a Promise Kept than we are. We'll be considering our rating again before the end of Obama's term.





http://www.politifact.com/georgia/article/2010/oct/05/obama/