9/92Chances that an American under the age of 21 voted in the 1972 presidential election: 1 in 2

U.S. Census Bureau (Suitland, Md.)

    Chances that an American under the age of 21 voted in the 1988 presidential election: 1 in 3

U.S. Census Bureau (Suitland, Md.)

1/90Percentage of all blacks who voted in the 1984 presidential election who were first-time voters: 11

Committee for the Study of the American Electorate (Washington)/ABC News Polling Dept. (N.Y.C)

3/01Number of the last 9 presidential elections in which Montana voted Republican: 8

Montana Secretary of State (Helena)

10/92Number of New York Times articles published this year in which the name Willie Horton was mentioned: 69

Harper’s research

    Number of articles published during the 1988 presidential campaign in which Horton was mentioned: 33

Harper’s research

1/92Chances that a vote cast in the 1960 presidential election was cast by a suburbanite: 1 in 4

Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)

    Chances that a vote cast in the 1992 presidential election will be cast by a suburbanite: 1 in 2

William Schneider, American Enterprise Institute (Washington)