Obama's two-term presidency (2009-2017) reshaped U.S. healthcare with the Affordable Care Act and finished with a record across climate, immigration, criminal justice, and foreign policy that ran into a Republican-controlled Congress for most of the second term. This profile grades his 2008 and 2012 campaign promises against eight years in office.
Barack Obama's tenure kept half his major campaign promises while breaking four key pledges. He fulfilled six commitments, including the Affordable Care Act and auto-industry rescue, but failed to close Guantánamo Bay, pass comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship, enact a cap-and-trade climate system, or advance gun-violence-prevention legislation after Sandy Hook. He achieved 50 percent of graded promises tracked across 12 major commitments, with two listed as partial. The bundle does not yet include donor data or specific Congressional vote alignments for this office.
Narrated from FEC + Congress.gov receipts. Every figure traces to our data.
II kept 50% of 12 promises tracked for the 2013–2017 term. Each verdict is term-scoped, primary-sourced, and reviewed by three sequential reviewers (neutral · conservative · progressive).
Standard review · primary sources, single editorial pass.
Barack Hussein Obama II's campaign-promise scorecard: 50% kept of 12 graded. Source: campaignreceipts.com/r/barack-obama
Primary-source promise tracker, campaignreceipts.com.
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The United States signed the Paris Agreement on Apr 22, 2016 and formally accepted it Sep 3, 2016 alongside China. The U.S.-China Joint Announcement (Nov 2014) set the precedent that enabled the Paris terms.
The Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 (Pub.L. 111-321) was signed Dec 22, 2010. Implementation completed Sep 20, 2011 after the certification requirements were satisfied.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was concluded July 14, 2015 between Iran and the P5+1. UN Security Council Resolution 2231 endorsed it July 20, 2015. The agreement remained in force at the end of his term.
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