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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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From: DuckTapeSunroof4/29/2009 11:36:41 AM
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Campaign Promises (early & preliminary) Scorecard:

...So, just how many items on his to-do list can President Obama check off?

Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Web site from the St. Petersburg Times, added up all of the campaign promises Obama made over the last two years and came up with more than 500. Their analysis determined that he has already fulfilled 27 and is working on another 61.

Many of the Obama administration's key accomplishments thus far have been done by the stroke of a pen -- executive orders reversing Bush policies, like the closing of Guantanamo Bay; executive orders that made stricter ethics rules for administration staff, including a lobbyist gift ban; and an executive order reversing the Bush ban on embryonic stem cell research.

Obama did not set a 100-day deadline for his key agenda items -- no candidate wants to back themselves into a corner like that.

But because of the economic crisis, and his belief that the best way to get the economy back on track was through government action, Obama had a sense of urgency at the start of his administration and pushed to quickly implement many of his campaign pledges.

Below is a look at where Obama stands on several of the key promises he made while campaigning for president....

abcnews.go.com
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