Rate Obama’s performance at 
TabsonObama.org.
Updated 14:39, January the 20th, 2010
Site keeps tabs on Obama
Two New Yorkers who volunteered for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign wanted to make sure he kept his election promises. So, they created a Web site encouraging people to rate Obama on everything from his Cabinet members to weekly radio addresses.
“We’re trying to make it as easy as Netflix,” said Chirag Patel, 34, co-founder of the TabsonObama.org. “We hope it promotes transparency, accountability and civic engagement.” He also wants to provide “deeper insights than standard Gallup polls.”
Developed by a bunch of like-minded, tech-head liberals in Patel’s Brooklyn, N.Y., loft, the site shows low favorability for the president. In fact, ex-Bush appointee, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, is the most popular.
The backlash
A Web site created by liberals with low ratings for Obama? What gives?
After Patel, who is originally from Huntsville, Ala., was featured in a local paper there, the site was “slammed by Republicans” from there, he said. (The site asks for users’ ZIP codes.)
How does Patel rate Obama, on a scale of one to five? He’s disappointed in the lack of a public option in health care reform, campaign finance reform and troop withdrawal from Iraq. “I might give him a three … or maybe a two and a half.”
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