11/04Chance that a Republican president has not won the popular vote: 1 in 6
Chance that a Democratic president has not: 0
11/04Deadline for completion of the first federally mandated national list of registered voters: 2006
11/04Number of states in which voters can cast ballots in advance by mail or in person without providing a reason: 30
11/04Ratio of hours of live U.S.-convention coverage per U.S. network this year to hours of live coverage on Al Jazeera: 1:2
11/04Number of dead bodies pictured in the New York Times during the first week of September: 16.5
11/04Number of U.S. soldiers returned from Iraq in the last year who have been diagnosed with mental-health problems: 5,375
11/04Factor by which the annual number of Sahara dust storms has increased in the last 50 years: 10
11/04Minimum number of customers trampled to death in September at the opening of a Saudi Arabian Ikea: 2
11/04Percentage of Britons over the age of 50 who have hurt themselves attempting to open product packaging: 71
11/04Number of U.S. McDonald’s franchises whose drive-through order taking has been outsourced to another state: 2
Average number of seconds by which orders placed at these franchises are processed more quickly than at others: 30
11/04Distance in feet traveled by the winning pumpkin at Delaware’s Punkin Chunkin Competition last year: 4,434.28
Length in feet of the barrel of “The Second Amendment” pumpkin cannon from which it was shot: 150
11/04Maximum number of rounds a semi-automatic rifle may hold to be considered legal in New Jersey: 15
Maximum number allowed by the recently lifted federal ban on assault rifles: 10
11/04Minimum number of Californians serving a life sentence for cheating on a driving exam: 1
11/04Percentage of judges nominated by George W. Bush since 2000 who have been confirmed by the Senate: 89
11/04Percentage by which John Ashcroft cut the number of judgeships on the federal Board of Immigration Appeals in 2002: 50
11/04Percentage change from 2000 to 2003 in the number of immigration appeals sent to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court: +355
11/04Estimated chance that a classified document is “over-classified,” according to a Pentagon official this year: 1 in 2
11/04Years since U.S. law began defining aborted fetuses with “pulsation of the umbilical cord” as legal persons: 2.5
11/04Rank of antidepressants and anti-ulcer drugs among the best-selling prescription drugs worldwide last year: 3,2
11/04Percentage change between 2002 and 2003 in the number of U.S. buttock-augmentation surgeries: +533
11/04Weight in pounds of a “millionaire” seeking “Cinderella” in a New York magazine personal ad last summer: 444
11/04Days after the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that Dick Cheney married, securing a draft deferment: 22
11/04Price charged on Amazon.com this year for Lynne Cheney’s out-of-print lesbian historical novel, Sisters: $1,000