Via Slog:

I, like many people, have been guilty of thinking that there is nothing that’s going to keep track of a candidate’s campaign promises. A candidate can say anything to get himself elected, then just renege on all of them, because who’s going to remember? He must make hundreds of them over the course of his campaign, right?

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: the Obameter, a compilation of about 500 campaign promises. The St. Petersburg Times is tracking their progress–whether the promise is kept or broken, whether he compromised, whether it’s stalled, or whether no action has been taken as of yet.

I keep forgetting that we live in an age of the internet. As John Allison once put it, “Google is giving people the facts, and we want them back.” Maybe this won’t be used in a terribly widespread fashion. A lot of political afficionadoes will have lost their interest in politics. But now there is accountability. Someone is watching, and it’s easy to access. People can get information more readily now. Is it possible we’re finally entering an age of government transparency?