{"id":14464,"date":"2016-08-26T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14464"},"modified":"2016-08-25T21:39:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T01:39:12","slug":"it-turns-out-that-politicians-keep-most-of-their-promises-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/it-turns-out-that-politicians-keep-most-of-their-promises-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"It Turns Out That Politicians Keep Most Of Their Promises After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/082616_0135_ItTurnsOutT1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Believe that politicians are lying scum who will say anything to get votes? Turns out most of them follow through on what they say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Studies have consistently found that American Presidents have made a good faith effort to keep about two thirds of their campaign promises.<\/li>\n<li>Bush, after all, cut taxes and enacted education reform as he had promised. Obama delivered health care and environmental legislation.<\/li>\n<li>In fact, Obama so far has kept about 70% of his promises, while Republicans have kept about the same proportion of the promises they made before they took over the house.<\/li>\n<li>Over in Europe politicians keep even more of their promises, likely because in parliamentary systems the ruling party controls both the legislative and the executive branch.<\/li>\n<li>In cases where politicians don&#8217;t keep to their promises, it is often due to unusual circumstances \u2013 such as the once in a generation financial crisis that required Bush to pass a deficit inducing stimulus package.<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps politicians are thought of as liars because when they do abruptly go back on their word there is a lot of coverage around it, and people remember it more than instances of promises being kept.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/trust-us-politicians-keep-most-of-their-promises\/?utm_source=nextdraft&amp;utm_medium=email\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/trust-us-politicians-keep-most-of-their-promises\/?utm_source=nextdraft&amp;utm_medium=email\">Five Thirty Eight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe that politicians are lying scum who will say anything to get votes? Turns out most of them follow through on what they say: Studies have consistently found that American Presidents have made a good faith effort to keep about two thirds of their campaign promises. Bush, after all, cut taxes and enacted education reform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/082616_0135_ItTurnsOutT1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14468,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14464\/revisions\/14468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}