From Politifact comes PolitiFact The Obameter: Tracking Barack Obama's Campaign Promises.

The count so far:
Tracking Obama’s promises

* Promise Kept 6
* Compromise 1
* Promise Broken 0
* Stalled 1
* In the Works 14
* No Action 488

The actual page shows a bar graph.

I ran across this yesterday, noted it in a comments ( Read more... )

At noon, just as Obama officially became President*, the White House website http://www.whitehouse.gov changed.

It has a blog.

And the blog has an LJ feed: whitehousegovThe White House can be your LJ friend. (Another thing some of us never thought during the previous Administration!) Friend the White ( Read more... )

CQ politics websiteTrack the confirmation of Obama's Cabinet Nominees.

Yesterday's post didn't include the people nominated, um, yesterday (I saw that later on C-SPAN when I got home), or, of course, today's.

Those folks are in here now, so I think this is actually up-to-date:( Read more... )

Sorry, I couldn't resist using that! And I need to get an Obama userpic soon ( Read more... )

Inspired by this post at Library Juice, I am posting a couple of links relating to the transition to the Obama administration.

Change.gov is the website for the Office of the President-Elect, and the incoming Obama-Biden administration.

Share your ideas: This is a link at the bottom of the Change.gov page. I think maybe it should be higher. Share ( Read more... )

Well, Dan Rooney was supporting Barack (although some of his former players, such as Lynn Swann, weren't).

Snopes.com has posted their verdict on a rumor that in all but one of the last fifteen elections (up to this one) if the Washington Redskins won their last home game, the incumbent party would win the Presidential election ( Read more... )

Honest, that was my first thought when the count went over 270. As if we, collectively, the whole country, had been Scrooge and now it was that glorious morning after the spirits had visited him, and changed him, "all in one night."

Rob Owen, TV critic of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette points out, "it plays like the ultimate happy ending. But the ( Read more... )

Over on Making Light, Patrick has a Voting-and-nervous-energy thread. This is sort of mine.

Patrick also posted in the "Sidelights" section a link to the "Yes we can (hold babies)" blog ("It's like Cute Overload crossed with Daily Kos"). For some reason :-) this was my favorite picture there:

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What's wrong with this picture?


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