| Sep 2006 | - Percentage of Republicans and Democrats, respectively, in October 1994 who said they were excited to vote that year: 45, 30
Percentage who said this in June about the 2006 midterm election: 30, 46
| Source: Pew Research Center for the People and the Press (Washington)
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| Jul 2006 | - Percentage of Republicans who viewed “Hillary Clinton” favorably in an April poll: 16
| Source: CNN (Washington)
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| Mar 2006 | - Percentage of Democrats and Republicans, respectively, who say the Iraq war was “worth fighting”: 4, 84
| Source: M.I.T. Public Opinion Research Training Lab (Cambridge, Mass.)
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| Jan 2006 | - Margin by which total votes for Democrats in the last three Senate elections exceeded those for Republicans: 2,900,000
Number of seats won by Democrats and Republicans, respectively: 46, 56 | Source: Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
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| Nov 2004 | - Chance that a Republican president has not won the popular vote : 1 in 6
| Source: Jimmy Carter Library & Museum (Atlanta)
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| Mar 2004 | - Number of the 420 demonstrators arrested at Philadelphia's 2000 Republican National Convention who were convicted : 23
| Source: The R2K Legal Collective (Philadelphia)
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| Oct 2003 | - Year in which House Republicans thrice rejected an amendment to upgrade the U.S. electrical grid : 2001
| Source: Office of Congressman Sam Farr
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| Oct 2003 | - Number of Virginia
Republican Party officials fined this year for eavesdropping on Democratic Party conference calls : 3
| Source: The Republican Party of Virginia (Richmond)
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| Apr 2003 | - Chances that a Democrat believes that "most" Republicans are prejudiced against African Americans: 2 in 5
| Source: The Gallup Organization (Princeton, N.J.)
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| Oct 2001 | - Number of people arrested at last year's Republican National Convention: 390
| Source: Philadelphia Police Department
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| Oct 2001 | - Amount of campaign contributions that Sen. James Jeffords has returned since leaving the Republican Party in May: $17,470
| Source: Office of Sen. James Jeffords (Washington)
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| Jul 2001 | - Number of the sixteen previous Republican presidents who experienced a recession during their first term in office: 15
| Source: National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Mass.)/ Harper's research
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| Feb 2001 | - Rank of the Republican Party among sixty brand names tested for customer loyalty in 1999: 60
| Source: FCB Worldwide (N.Y.C.)
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| Oct 2000 | - Number of G.O.P. presidential conventions since 1911 with a larger percentage of black delegates than last summer's: 5
| Source: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Washington)
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| Oct 2000 | - Percentage of G.O.P. delegates at the 1912 and 2000 conventions, respectively, who identified themselves as black: 6, 4.1
| Source: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Washington)
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| Sep 2000 | - Number of incumbent Republican governors who have won the presidency since 1898: 0
| Source:
Harper's research
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| Aug 2000 | - Amount New Jersey's Camden police spent on riot gear in preparation for Philadelphia's GOP convention: $47,775
| Source: Camden City Clerk's Office (Camden, N.J.)
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| Feb 2000 | - Number of the two memoirs published by GOP presidential candidates last year that use the phrase “toga party”: 2
| Source: George W. Bush, A Charge to Keep, William Morrow &Company (N.Y.C.)/John McCain, Faith of My Fathers, Random House (N.Y.C.);
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| Nov 1999 | - Amount by which the President's ten-year defense budget exceeds that of House Republicans: $206,000,000
| Source: Economic Policy Institute (Washington)
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| Oct 1999 | - Billions of gallons of water that the GOP reported released into a New Hampshire river in July for an Al Gore visit: 4
| Source: Republican National Committee (Washington)
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| Oct 1999 | - Number of days last August that Iowa hosted both the GOP presidential straw poll and the National Hobo Convention: 1
| Source: Britt City Chamber of Commerce (Britt, Iowa)/Iowa State Republican Party (Des Moines)
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| Aug 1999 | - Age at which Elizabeth Dole became a Republican: 39
| Source: Elizabeth Dole for President Exploratory Committee (Arlington, Va.)
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| Jun 1999 | - Last year in which neither a Dole nor a Bush has appeared on the Republican presidential ticket: 1972
| Source:
Harper's research
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| Jan 1999 | - Percentage change since then in the number of Republican candidates endorsed by a union: +125
| Source: AFL-CIO (Washington)
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| Sep 1998 | - Percentage change since 1991 in total Microsoft contributions to the Democratic and Republican parties: +460
| Source: Center for Responsive Politics (Washington)
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| Jun 1998 | - Number of the 524 subpoenas issued in Rep. Dan Burton's campaign-finance investigation that have gone to Republicans: 9
| Source: Democratic Office for the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight
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