Number of corporations that have publicly committed to sponsoring the Democratic National Convention, as of June: 75
Number for the Republican National Convention: 50
Percentage change by 2012 in the after-tax income of the top 0.1 percent of U.S. earners, under Barack Obama's tax plan: -5
Percentage change under John McCain's tax plan: +12
Percentage of all income gains during the Bush administration that have gone to the top 1 percent of earners: 75
Percentage of Americans who say that they or someone in their family has married in order to get health insurance: 7
Chance that a U.S. home is currently vacant: 1 in 35
Rank of this among the highest recorded vacancy rates in U.S. history: 1
Percentage change between 1989 and 2007 in the median price of an American single-family home: +130
Percentage change in the median down payment: +3.7
Percentage of U.S. homeowners who reported last year that they had bought a car using a home-equity loan: 27
Estimated amount by which per-gallon gas prices would change if the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge were drilled: -4›
Number of U.S. troops sent to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003 after being deemed medically "non-deployable": 43,000
Square footage of new jail space slated for construction
at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan: 1,742,400
Minimum number of extraordinary renditions that the United States has made since 2006: 200
Estimated number of juveniles whom the United States has detained as enemy combatants since 2002: 2,500
Number of skateboards being sent to Iraq for the "Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment Experience," now under construction: 2,000
Number of Texas school districts that keep track of truants with electronic monitoring devices: 3
Percentage of U.S. children who think kids who wear glasses are smarter than those who do not: 66
Percentage of U.S. students aged 12 to 17 who say they use text-message slang in their written school assignments: 38
Average word count of top-10 songs during the 1960s: 176
Average last year: 436
Number of times per year that Canada's defense ministry requires a think tank it funds to be mentioned in the press: 29
Number of op-ed pieces the think tank's staff must publish, including letters: 15
Tons of foreign rice that Japan must buy each year, according to WTO agreements: 751,776
Portion of it that Japan allows to be sold for human consumption: 1/7
Maximum per-day purchase of rice, in pounds, that Sam's Club has limited each customer to since April: 80
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