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One of the stimulus's lesser-known but more-important efforts was the massive push to get doctors to use electronic medical records.

Half of all doctors using electronic records, most of the rest considering it Ezra Klein 2010

But because the economy is still in terrible shape -- in part due to the stimulus's size, though I'm not sure that Democrats would be much more popular if a large stimulus had brought unemployment down to 8.2 percent -- both the stimulus and the bailout have been politically, if not substantively, discredited.

When good policies look bad Ezra Klein 2010

And even if the president was disappointed by the progress, why is he giving ammunition to the stimulus's critics only weeks before the midterm election?

Why does Obama keep telling reporters there are 'no shovel-ready projects'? Ezra Klein 2010

In fact, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates, the stimulus's effect on employment in 2010 was at least 1.3 million net new jobs, and perhaps as many as 3.3 million.

The GOP Myth of 'Job-Killing' Spending Alan S. Blinder 2011

But last August, when he visited an advanced battery plant in Menomonee Falls, Wis., Mr. Obama did not just tout the stimulus's effect on the economy.

Obama Takes Infrastructure Push to Wisconsin Jonathan Weisman 2011

In fact, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates, the stimulus's effect on employment in 2010 was at least 1.3 million net new jobs, and perhaps as many as 3.3 million.

The GOP Myth of 'Job-Killing' Spending Alan S. Blinder 2011

Those efforts weren't ready for shovels the morning after the bill passed, but it didn't take more than a couple of months to break ground on many of them, and all of them hit within the stimulus's two-year target range.

Why does Obama keep telling reporters there are 'no shovel-ready projects'? Ezra Klein 2010

In fact, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates, the stimulus's effect on employment in 2010 was at least 1.3 million net new jobs, and perhaps as many as 3.3 million.

The GOP Myth of 'Job-Killing' Spending Alan S. Blinder 2011

NEWSWEEK's Daniel Gross points out that it's too early to write the stimulus's postmortem.

The Stimulus in My Neighborhood 2010

Funding small-scale projects like hotel construction and equipment purchases for fire departments may also leave people unaware of the stimulus's footprint.

The Stimulus in My Neighborhood 2010