11/90Number of Democratic presidential candidates since 1932 who received the majority of U.S. newspaper endorsements: 1

Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media, by Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomon (Carol Publishing Group, N.Y.C.)

12/01Minimum number of cats fitted with high-tech listening equipment in a 1967 CIA project: 1

Victor Marchetti (Vienna, Va.)

    Estimated number of minutes after the cat was released on its first test run that it was killed by a taxi: 10

Victor Marchetti (Vienna, Va.)

4/86Percentage of Republicans in 1955 who were white Southerners: 10

Prof. John Petrocik (University of California at Los Angeles)

    Today: 33

Prof. John Petrocik (University of California at Los Angeles)

4/07Number of local Republican officials who have been investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice since 2001: 37

Donald Shields, University of Missouri, St. Louis

    Number of local Democratic officials who have been: 262

Donald Shields, University of Missouri, St. Louis

9/00Number of incumbent Republican governors who have won the presidency since 1898: 0

Harper’s research