News by the Numbers - August, 2009

• 2.5% income tax increase - would be imposed on each person who refused to buy government improved insurance, according to Dr. McKalip, the President of the Florida Neurosurgical Society.


• 6.3% - the amount annual physician net income is estimated to drop under Obamacare.


• 15 days into office - President Obama signed a bill expanding the children's health insurance program that was paid for with a 156% tax hike on tobacco, breaking his promise that he would not raise any taxes on those making less than $250,000.


• 55% of Virginians favor strengthening and enforcing laws designed to prevent illegal aliens from living and working in the U.S., according to a recent Zogby poll.


• 78% of Virginians believe that illegal immigration has a negative impact on the state budget.


• 84% of Virginians want Virginia to join other states in making use of E-Verify mandatory by all employers statewide.


• 90% of Virginians want Congress to reauthorize E-Verify, according to Zogby.


• 88 million+ Americans could LOSE their private, employer-based coverage, according to The Heritage Foundation.


• $452 Billion a year - Interest payments on the U.S. debt


• $1.3 trillion - the cost of Obamacare, according to the Congressional Budget Office


• $1.85 trillion - the federal budget deficit for FY2009


• $2.67 Trillion - the outlays through the first nine months of this budget year, up 21% from a year ago.


• $11.5 TRILLION - TOTAL U.S. DEBT

News by the Numbers - June, 2009

• None, Nada, Zip - There are no numbers and no ability to find them that can prove Obama's fantasy claims that his "stimulus" efforts saved any American jobs. It is an impossible task to calculate what the employment level will be in the future with OR without the stimulus spending, according to Tony Fratto, former White House Spokesman for President Bush.

• 5 North African Muslims, who are part of an international group, are accused of targeting Milan, and Bologna for terror attacks and have been named in arrest warrants issued by Italy.

• Only 12% of Americans' health care expenditures are paid out of their own pocket.

• 22 states, including Virginia, have laws that prohibit compulsory union membership as a condition of employment.

• 40% of physicians won't accept Medicaid patients.

• Medicaid patients are 50% more likely to die after heart bypass surgery than patients with private coverage or Medicare, according to a study cited by Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a physician and health care expert.

• 60% of Americans' health care expenditures were out of their own pocket in 1960.

• Only 63% of surveyed physicians in family practice will accept Medicaid patients.

• 65% of physicians said reimbursements from Medicaid were less than their costs, according to a survey by Merritt Hawkins.

• 59 million Americans already have government health care. It's called Medicaid. Bureaucrats define what is covered and how much physicians will be paid. And, as result, there is a huge gap between being covered and actually getting health care, according to Star Parker.

• $1.5 trillion - the cost of Obama's disastrous government-controlled health care scheme.

News by the Numbers - April 2009

0 - When was the last time that you saw a news report giving the latest number of American war dead in Iraq? There haven't been any published in the national news since the election on Nov. 4th! The numbers were never intended to be news, but they were just a club to bash Bush and Republicans by association.

3 years - the amount of time the IRS has in which to conduct an audit on a return or an amended return, according to an AP article.

3 times - Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has delayed access to energy in the United States. In July 2008, then Senator Salazar stated he would not support drilling offshore if gas prices were to reach $10 per gallon, according to The Heritage Foundation.

5% or less - the maximum reduction in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels that a clamp down on future U.S. emissions would produce - a trivial change no matter what you believe about carbon dioxide. Moreover, China and India have vowed not to harm their economies because of global warming -- so their emissions can be expected to soar as they develop and more than make-up for our reductions, according to Steven Milloy, JunkScience.com

5 years - the U.S. could completely end its dependence on OPEC by 2020, if full-scale production of the conservatively estimated 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil, from oil shale in the Green River Formation, were to begin. The Green River Formation is three times greater than the proven oil reserves of Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, according to the U.S. Department of Interior and Bureau of Land Management.

8 islands that are now part of Alaska, the 200-mile exclusive economic zones around them and all the outer continental shelf that goes beyond 200 miles are to be confiscated in a conspiracy between the wealthy Russian thugs who now run Russia and unelected international bureaucrats at the United Nations. The land grab represents hundreds of thousands of square miles of sovereign American territory, containing billions of barrels of American oil, which will be given to Russia if brazen Russian opportunists and U.N. bureaucrats have their way, according to Carl Olson, Chairman of State Department Watch.

25 DVDs given by Obama to the Prime Minister of Britain were not even compatible with European media players

32 miles of the double fencing, of the 700 miles approved by Congress in 2006 has been completed on the border - a pace of just under 11 miles a year, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

41% of Americans say the seriousness of global warming is exaggerated, according to a Gallup poll.

69% of the American people do not have any confidence in the role of government mandated solutions to the economy, according to Kevin McCullough.

78% of the American people believe inflation will come quickly.

80% of the increase in energy demand during the next two decades is expected to come from China, India and the Middle East, according to Richard W. Rahn, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth.

82% of the American people say they are worried about the monstrous rise in the national debt.

83% of the American people say they are worried that the steps he has taken to fix the economy will have the opposite effect and make things worse, according to Kevin McCullough.

234-191 - the vote which passed H.R. 1106 in the House of Representatives which would grant bankruptcy judges the unilateral authority to reduce lending rates or to reduce the amount owed to a lender, transferring the burden from those who are not able to meet their mortgage obligations to future homeowners and taxpayers. Congressman Eric Cantor (R-7th District) voted against this bill.

370 kidnappings occurred in Phoenix, Arizona in 2008, spearheaded by Mexican drug cartels, which operate brazenly in the city, according to ABC News.

$750 per year - the cost that reducing greenhouse gas emissions would cost the poorest families in America as higher energy prices ripple through the economy affecting all goods and services.

1993 - Congress increased the amount of Social Security benefits subject to taxation from 50% to 85%.

$110,332 - AIG’s campaign contributions to Democrat Barack Obama, according to OpenSecrets.org

$111,875 - AIG’s campaign contributions to Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer, according to OpenSecrets.org

$281,038 - AIG’s campaign contributions to Democrat Senator Chris Dodd, according to OpenSecrets.org

$260,000 in contributions by Wall Street fund manager Bernard Madoff were made to prominent Democratic politicians, including Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y; Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y; #House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo; Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.; Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.; Gov. Jon Corzine, D-N.J. Madoff also gave $100,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, according to Jerome R. Corsi, World Net Daily.

$500,000 - Obama’s 2009 advance for an abridged version of his book "Dreams From My Father" for middle-school-aged children

$1 million - Obama’s income in 2006

$2.5 million - book royalties paid to Obama last year for "Dreams From My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope."

$4 million+ - Obama’s income in 2007

$15 million a month will go to unions that support Democrat candidates and the Democrat Party committees in dues payments from the 600,000 new federal government jobs created by the “stimulus bill” passed by the Democrats, according to the National Republican Congressional Committee.

$17 billion - the total bailout to General Motors and Chrysler thus far. They have asked to borrow $21.6 billion more. In addition, their financing arms have received $6.5 billion, according to and AP report.

$182.5 billion - the total bailout to AIG thus far.

$2.435 trillion has been taken (stolen) from our Social Security Trust Fund savings by Congress. They take another $227 billion this year alone, according to the Christian Seniors Association which notes that the liberal AARP denies there is an ongoing raid of the Social Security Trust Fund.

News by the Numbers - March 2009

• 1 - nuclear bomb can be made by Iran with the stockpile of enough enriched uranium they have built up, according to United Nations officials

• 10+ years – there has been no recording global warming, according to the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization.

• #20 – out of a list of 20 issues: the priority which government should give climate change, according to a recent poll by the Pew Research Center.

• 46% of American households have kids - the lowest point in half a century, according to The Heritage Foundation.
  
• 33% of the passage of the world’s shipping is now controlled by Communist China, thanks (in part) to Democrat President Jimmy Carter’s naïve 1977 give-away of the Panama Canal, a key national security priority since

• President James Monroe. China can easily use its strategic position in Panama to spy on the U.S. They are also using their presence to form alliances with Communist Fidel Castro, Leftist Hugo Chavez, and Columbian and Peruvian drug dealers and terrorists. For the first time ever, Imperial Russia has sent a warship through the Panama Canal, according to Lt. Col. Oliver North, USMC (Ret.)

• 72% of Americans say Congress should not authorize the additional $21 billion in emergency loans that General Motors and Chrysler are requesting, according to Gallup.

• 8 million U.S. citizens become victims of identity theft every year, according to Chelsea Schilling
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• 1990 – 2007 – the black population grew 27% in America, according to the Associated Press

• 1979 – Global sea levels are now equal to 1979 levels, according to the University of Illinois’ Artic Climate Research Center.

• 1,000's of prisoners and prostitutes were used by sex scientist Alfred Kinsey, widely known as the "father of the sexual revolution," as a basis for his research, fraudulently claiming them to be normal, middle class “Greatest Generation” Americans. He also worked with serial pedophiles who sexually molested children as young as two months of age, in order to claim that children are sexual from birth, according to Judith Reisman, a Ph.D. researcher and scholar whose exposés of Kinsey have appeared in several books, including "Kinsey: Crimes & Consequences" and, most recently, a new DVD called "The Kinsey Syndrome."

• 2042 – the white population will be a minority in America if current trends continue, according to demographers.

• $10 trillion - $11 trillion has been transferred from producers and earners to nonproducers and nonearners since the ‘war on poverty’ started in the '30s as part of the New Deal. It ramped up in the '60s with Lyndon Johnson’s of the Great Society war on poverty, according to Rush Limbaugh.

News by the Numbers - February 2009

Two states, Washington and Oregon, have legalized assisted suicide, according to Chuck Colson. Two down, 48 to go. For Obama that would be 55 states.

5-15% - the “rated capacity” of intermittent electricity during peak summer demand periods, provided by unreliable renewable energy programs which will require tens of billions in subsidies and tax breaks.

15% cuts in carbon emissions will result in “persistently higher prices for products such as electricity and gasoline. Those price increases would be regressive in that poorer households would bear a larger burden relative to their income than wealthier households would,” according to a 2007 study by the Congressional Budget Office.

25% - of active duty members of the U.S. military would consider leaving the service if the ban on open homosexuality were repealed, according to a Military Times survey.

29%, 55% 15% - the amount that emission restrictions will increase the cost of gas, electricity, and natural gas by 2015, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.

40% of George Washington’s inaugural speech referenced his faith and religion, (approximately).

58% of active duty members of the U.S. military oppose lifting the ban on open homosexuality, according to a Military Times survey.

60% fewer gun massacres occurred between 1977 and 1999 in states that adopted concealed-carry laws and the death and injury rate of such rampages were reduced by 80%, according to a by economists John Lott and Bill Landes.

63% cuts in emissions by 2050, would reduce U.S. gross domestic product by up to $269 billion and cost 850,000 jobs by 2014, according to a study by the National Association of Manufacturers.

65% of Syphilis Cases are attributed to homosexual men, according to a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)study. They are the “primary driver” of increased overall rates of syphilis, a disease that was almost eliminated as a public health threat less than 10 years ago.

66% of released prisoners are rearrested within three years, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

70% of reported cases of gonorrhea in 2007 were attributed to African-Americans, who make up 12 percent of the U.S. population, according to the CDC.

90% of children ages 8 to 16 have been exposed to Internet porn, according to TopTen­Reviews

90%+ of teens in the United States have access to the Internet, according to Dr. Megan Moreno, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. About half of all teens who use the Internet also use social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook. MySpace boasts more than 200 million profiles, according to the studies, and about one-quarter of those belong to teens under 18.

99.999% - the safety record of oil companies which produced nearly 12 billion barrels of oil from Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) leases between 1980 and 2007, according to data from the US Minerals Management Service.

600 private jets flown by rich Democrats flew into the Inauguration, according to David Limbaugh.

1,400 years - the length of time Coptic Christians in Egypt have been harassed, tortured and killed by Muslims, according to a report from the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights. Not one Muslim ever has been convicted in the attacks

3,000 pregnant mothers were "brutalized physically and emotionally by surgical abortion, and 3,000 innocent preborn human boys and girls … killed intentionally," the day Obama was inaugurated, according to March for Life.

5,000 Christians have been massacred in Egypt in the last 10 years, according to Sam Grace of Coptic News

100,000 years of glacial age are coming as the warm, 12,000-year Holocene period soon ends, according to Pravda, Russia's online newspaper. World temperatures have dropped to levels not seen since 2000. The year 2008 has been documented as the coolest year of this century.

1.6 million troops have served in either Iraq or Afghanistan since 9/11 (approximately). Veterans are about 10 times less likely to commit a murder than non-veterans of those wars.

$5 million+ - was pocketed by Obama when he sold the rights to broadcast coverage of inaugural events, effectively limiting the number of Americans who can view them and undercutting Obama’s claims of accessibility, according to Business & Media Institute VP Dan Gainor.

50 million innocent preborn human boys and girls have been eliminated by a systematic and planned extermination since Roe v. Wade, according to March for Life

60 million inhabitants of Iraq and Afghanistan were liberated during President Bush’s administration.

575 MILLION Pounds of CO2 were estimated to be created by the Obama inauguration. The average U.S. household would take 57,598 years to produce a carbon footprint equal to that of Obama’s housewarming party.

$2.07 billion - the amount spent to comply with government regulations in 2007 by the banking and finance industries, almost tripling from $725 million in 1980.

$15.3 billion are spent annually by the U.S. health care system on treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), according to the CDC.

$269 billion in U.S. gross domestic product will be lost along with a loss of up to 850,000 jobs by 2014 will occur if emissions caps, calling for a 63% cut in emissions by 2050, are enacted, according to a National Association of Manufacturers study.

$616 billion - income taxes paid by the top 5 percent of payers in 2006 which rose from $407 billion in 2003, according to the IRS.

$1.024 trillion - the amount of income tax revenue in 2006, up from $748 billion in 2003 -- that's faster than inflation, according to the IRS. Rising spending, not tax cuts have led to a higher deficit.

News by the Numbers - January 2009

• 12 years in a row, the government has failed financial audits. The U.S. Government is unable to accurately report on its fiscal condition according to a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). And this is the organization Americans should trust with socialized health care?

• 50% - the increase in gasoline and diesel fuel taxes being urged by the National Commission on Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing. The current tax is 18.4 cents a gallon federal tax on gasoline and the 24.4 cents a gallon tax on diesel. State fuel taxes vary from state to state.

• 52% of those with incomes over $200,000 voted for Obama and more than 60% of those earning under $30,000 did, according to Star Parker

• 77 kilos of pot were found on a Mexican immigration official who was arrested in Arizona in October.

• 509 homicides were reported in Chicago during 2008, an increase of about 15 percent over 2007

• $175 Proposed EPA 'Cow Tax’ per Dairy Cow to Curb Greenhouse Gases. The New York Farm Bureau warns just this one rule may increase milk production costs up to 8 cents a gallon.

• 2007 - a year of maximum historic sea ice in Antarctica, according to the University of Illinois-Urbana

• 2008 - America's coldest year since 1997

• 3,400 immigrants came to the U.S. in 2008 from the four nations that are currently listed by the State Department as “state sponsors of terror” – Iran, Cuba, Syria and Sudan, according to CNSNews.com

• $3,500 - the daily rental for the Obama’s recent Hawaiian vacation house

• 9,800 aliens from state sponsors of terrorism have received diversity visas from 2000-2007, according to Government Accountability Office which also reported the diversity visa lottery program was "susceptible to fraud" and was a way for terrorists to enter the country.

• 14,000 people were executed by the "revolutionary" Che Guevara, according to Cuban émigré Humberto Fontova, author of "Exposing the Real Che Guevara." Witnesses say this icon for many radicals personally murdered hundreds - including children and pregnant women.

• 29,570 people - 0.4 percent of all those in federally funded housing are "ineligible no citizens," according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

• $30,000+ - the cost per student at Sidwell Friends where the Obama girls will attend school. Their dad’s money allowed them to choose a good school but he opposes school choice programs and vouchers for the not-so-rich.

• 700,000 illegal aliens, fugitives from deportation like Barack Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyango, are in the U.S., according to columnist Michelle Malkin

• $169,300.00 per year in salary, plus full benefits and expenses is the take home pay for a U.S. Senator.

• 270,000 square miles - the amount the Arctic sea ice expanded this year, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. That an increase of 13.2 percent, about the size of Texas.

• 300,000 Iraqi citizens were killed by Saddam Hussein during his 24 year reign. Some place the number at more than a million, according to Larry Elder.

• $677,200.00 - the amount Barack Hussein Obama was paid for 143 days of work in the Senate before running for President (that‘s $4,735.66 per day or $197.32 per hour, assuming he worked 24/7). Another way to look at it is that the taxpayers of Illinois paid him $602,000.00 to run for President for 43 months, according to Allan Erickson.

• 4-5 million illegal visa overstayers from around the world remain in the country, according to columnist Michelle Malkin.

• $100 million was pulled from the nonprofit Citizens Energy by CITGO, owned by the Venezuelan government led by leftist loudmouth president Hugo Chavez, bringing the winter fuel-assistance programs to a halt, according to Jay Fitzgerald

• $1.5 billion - total net worth of the United Autoworkers Union (UAW)for fiscal year 2007, according to financial disclosure forms on file with the U.S. Department of Labor. (CNSNews.com)

• $1.6 billion - was approved by Congress in June 2008 for a border security spending plan... for Mexico and Central America

• $7.7 trillion - the cost of the financial “rescue” package, according to Bloomberg’s latest estimate.

News by the Numbers - December 2008

• Only 3% of our oil demand last year was met by U.S. ethanol production even after 30 years of ethanol mandates, according to Seldon B. Graham, Jr., a longtime oil industry attorney and petroleum engineer.


• 4 huge turkey-processing plants shut down this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The closures were part of the ripple effect of corn’s being funneled to ethanol production instead of turkey feed.


• 50% of the coal that powers our electric power is American, according to the National Mining Association


• 50 African children have been accused as witches and subjected to emotional and physical abuse, including torture and murder, during a recent five year period in London.


• 292 Arab children have been killed while taking part in terrorist attacks over the past eight years, a new study conducted by Palestinian Authority researcher Mahdi Jaradat has revealed, according to The New Media Journal


• 1978, November 9 - President Jimmy Carter started the ethanol subsidy


• 1980, April 2 - Jimmy Carter signed the oil windfall profits tax putting in motion an anti-oil policy that has existed for over three decades and precipitating a 59% decline in U.S. oil production.


• 2,000% - the amount the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has grown since 1913 when the Federal Reserve Bank was created, meaning the typical item that cost $20 back then would now cost more than $400, according to Richard W. Rahn, Cato Institute.


• 2,000+ FDA-approved clinical trials are underway in the U.S. deploying stem cells. All are using adult sources of these tissues. None involve the killing of embryos. Additionally, there are no FDA approved trials for stem cells derived from embryos, according to Tony Perkins, Family Research Council Action


• 11,000+ attacks have been carried out by Muslims since 9/11, all in the name of Islam and Muhammad, according to Alan Caruba


• 11,500 years - the length of a cyclical interglacial period, according to Robert W. Felix, author of Not by Fire, but by Ice


• 11,500 years - the length of time it has been since the last ice age, i.e. it’s time for another cycle… with glaciers this time


• 700,000 illegal alien absconders who have ignored orders from immigration judges to leave the country, according to Michelle Malkin


• $700,000 - the amount Citigroup, which recently received $25 billion in federal bailout dollars, paid former President Bill Clinton for four speeches he delivered on the company’s behalf between 2004 and 2007, according to U.S. Senate financial disclosure statements filed by Sen. Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.) according to Matt Cover, CNSNews.com. Clinton was paid $150,000 each for three speeches and $250,000 for a fourth which he gave in Paris. No word yet on what his hot air was worth in 2008. Nice work, if you can get it though.


• 56,378,316 individuals voted against Barack Hussein Obama on November 4, 2008


• $745 million - the amount spent by Obama and the Democratic National Committee to buy the election


• $3.3 billion in taxpayer subsidies were distributed to ethanol producers in 2007, providing less energy, poor mileage and more carbon dioxide per mile.


• 12.3 billion bushels of corn were expected to be harvested this year, according to USDA projections. One-third of the harvest is destined for gas tanks as ethanol.


• $100 billion in taxes, on the average, are paid by the few remaining oil companies operating in the U.S.

News by the Numbers - November 2008

• 0.1% - the amount of their income which Senator & Mrs. Joe Biden gave to charity over the last 10 years, according to columnist Larry Elder.
  
• 12% - the amount of their income which taxpayers paid about to all three levels of government - state, local and federal in 1930, before Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, according to Larry Elder.
  
• 15 - banks failed during Bill Clinton's last two years in office, 1999 and 2000, according to the FDIC.
  
• 15 - banks failed in the almost two-year period of 2007 and 2008,according to the FDIC.
  
• 18% - the amount of their income President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, donated to charity in 2007.
  
• 40% - the amount of their income which taxpayers paid about to all three levels of government - state, local and federal today - even more if you attach a value to unfunded mandates, such as those issued by agencies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, according to Larry Elder.
  
• 50 - Assembly of God members in Kenya were locked in their church before it was set ablaze by supporters of Raila Odinga, a committed Marxist and cousin of Barack Obama. Those fleeing were hacked to death by machetes. Obama campaigned in Kenya for Odinga in 2006 and raised $1 million for Odinga’s campaign with the help of the son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi. Obama’s trip was paid for by American taxpayers, according to the Traditional Values Coalition.
  
• 74% - of America's top business leaders fear "an Obama presidency would be disastrous for the country," according to Chief Executive magazine.
  
• 89 - Islamic activists were arrested in France in 2007, according to French Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie.
  
• 91-94% - of all home mortgages in the United States are current, not teetering on foreclosure, according to Dan Kennedy, a columnist with the Business & Media Institute
  
• 94 - the average number of yearly bank failures since the Great Depression, according to the FDIC.
  
• Nearly 50% - of urban homes with mortgages were in default during the depression in 1934, according to Economist David Wheelock, of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Today 6.4 percent of mortgages are delinquent.
  
• 1,004 - banks failed in the recession-free years of 1988 and 1989, according to the FDIC
  
• 1977 - Democrats began the Community Reinvestment Act, encouraging bank loans to low- and moderate-income families, the first step in the sub-prime mortgage crisis of 2008.
  
• 1992 Congress forced Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase subprime mortgages - that is to say, risky mortgages.
  
• 1995 - The Community Reinvestment Act was expanded, leading to an 80 percent increase in loans to low- and moderate-income families, another step in the sub-prime mortgage crisis of 2008.
  
• 1996 - The Clinton administration's Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), enthralled as ever to the Democrats' urge for social engineering, ordered Fannie and Freddie to assist home purchases by low-income earners seeking homes in higher-income neighborhoods - more subprime mortgages, according to R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
  
• 1996 - HUD began targeting the number of such mortgages, requiring that 12 percent of Fannie and Freddie's mortgages assist low-income home purchasers in higher income neighborhoods.
  
• 2000 - the share of Fannie and Freddie's mortgages assist low-income home purchasers in higher income neighborhoods was increased to 20 percent.
  
• $50,000 - grant arranged by Barack Obama in 1999 for adult literacy and counseling services to a Chicago group led by Michelle Obama‘s 2nd cousin. He arranged a $25,000 grant for the group in 2000, according to Lisa De Pasquale at Human Events.
  
• $75,000 - Government grants awarded by Barack Obama, as an Illinois state senator, to a Chicago social service organization led by Michelle Obama’s cousin.
  
• $1 million - in earmarks per day requested by Barack Obama in his first three years in the U.S. Senate, according to Ed Morrisey at HotAir.com.
  
• $2 million - campaign money paid by Democrat VP candidate Joe Biden to family members and their businesses --including expenses for his wife, sister, two sons, according to the Washington Times.
  
• $5 million - illegal aliens hold illegal mortgages, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
  
• $460 million - penalties imposed on Penny Pritzker, the chair of Mr. Obama's finance committee, who gutted her own bank with subprime loans, according to Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
  
• $1 trillion - the amount the deficit will reach over the next 12 months with the new financial burdens the federal government is assuming in order to bail out Wall Street, according to predictions by some economists.
  

News by the Numbers - October 2008

• Less than 1 degree - the amount that global temperatures will have cooled by the end of the century, according to geologist Don J. Easterbrook, a professor emeritus at Western Washington University. The first half of 2008 was the coolest for at least five years and the rest of the year almost will certainly be cooler than recent years, according to columnist Phil Brennan, citing an article by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). “…This cooling exactly fits the pattern of timing of warm/cool cycles over the past 400 years,” writes. Easterbrook.


• 1 to 7 years - the amount smoking shortens life expectancy, according to studies.


• Early 40s - the average age at which homosexuals die if AIDS is the cause of death, according to a report on Health24.com


• Early 50s - the average age at which homosexuals die, according to the Health24.com report.


• 66 infants - had been left to die after abortions in Great Britain in the past year, according to the Daily Mail.


• 66 percent - of the time during the last 50 years, Democrats have controlled both houses of Congress, according to Gary Bauer. In case any Democrats are reading this, that means Republicans had control of Congress just 24% of the time, and there were a few years when the parties split control during the Reagan Administration.


• Mid to upper 70s - the average lifespan of heterosexuals, according to the Health24.com report.


• 77 percent - of ads from Obama’s campaign during the week following the GOP convention were negative compared to 56 percent negative ads from McCain, according to a study by the University of Wisconsin’s Wisconsin Advertising Project.


• 190 - the Senate Bill sponsored by Senator John McCain in 2005 which called for immediate action on the pending Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac crisis. Three Democrats, Dodd, Clinton and Obama himself led the charge to kill it. They subsequently became the three largest recipients of political contributions from Fannie and Freddie.


• 200 percent - the amount the risk of suicide increases among individuals who have engaged in a homosexual lifestyle, according to a study published in the medical journal BMC Psychiatry. Homosexuals are also about 50% more likely to suffer from depression and engage in substance abuse than the rest of the population, according to the new study from the United Kingdom.


• 270 - the number of electoral votes a candidate must amass to win the presidency.


• 2018 - the approximate year when the earth will enter ““little ice age” for up to 80 years because of a decrease in solar activity, according to Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics at Mexico’s National Autonomous University. Satellite data indicate that a period of global cooling may have begun in 2005, Herrera stated.


• 41 to 43 million - the estimated state population of Texas in 2050 if current legal and illegal immigration is left unchecked, according to Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). Texas currently has about 23 million residents.


• $4.7 billion - the annual combined costs of education ($4 billion), medical care ($520 million) and incarceration ($150 million) of illegal aliens in Texas, according to estimates by (FAIR).


• $10 billion - the amount Saddam Hussein's government owed to communist China, a debt which the new Iraqi government has been forced to repay in full.


• $100 billion - the amount owed to American citizens by The People’s Republic of China; a debt inherited when the communists took over in 1949, according to Congressman Elton Gallegly, (R-CA). The Chinese have not paid one red cent in the last 59 years.

News by the Numbers - September 2008

0 - the number of U.S. plant workers or members of the public who have ever been injured or killed by an accident caused by nuclear power, according to an Energy Tribune article by William E. Burchil

0.01 - the current percent of solar power as a source of electricity energy, according to columnist Alan Caruba

0.77 - the current percent of wind power as a source of electricity energy, according to Alan Caruba.

3.3% - The annualized rate that our economy grew between April and June, according to the U.S. Commerce Department

4 to 1 - the ratio of scenes carried by broadcast networks, depicting or implying sex between non-married partners that outnumbered similar scenes between married couples, favoring adultery and promiscuity over marital intimacy, according to a report by The Parents Television Council

6 - Joe Biden’s standing in the Democrat primaries, receiving “virtually no public support”, according to Noel Sheppard of NewsBusters

7 - the number of times Time Magazine has placed Barack “The One” Obama on the cover this year, compared to a paltry two times for John McCain.

14% - the increase in U.S. export sales between April and June, according to the U.S. Commerce Department

17 - The age of a Muslim girl who was shot to death by her father and brother on September 3rd in Sahiwal, Pakistan, for seeking a divorce after being forcibly married at 9, according to www.thereligionofpeace.com/

40% - the amount of decline in deaths from terrorism since 2001, according to new study by Simon Fraser University in Canada, refuting the Obama’s lie that the-world-is-more-dangerous since Bush.

50% - Russian economic freedom is rated at just below 50%, earning Russia the Heritage Foundation’s lowest ranking

58 - the number of states Barack Obama apparently thinks there are in the U.S. In May, Obama said he had visited 57 states in America, and August 24th, the Democrat presidential nominee added another one, declaring, “Eau Claire [Wisconsin] is a big important state.”

65% - the amount of decline in terrorist attacks since 2004, according to the study by Simon Fraser University in Canada

70% - of voters believe that controlling the U.S. borders is more important than legalizing illegal immigrants, a recent Rasmussen survey

75% - of the nation's public universities have speech code policies in force, even though a federal appeals court has found that they are an unconstitutional restriction on the First Amendment rights of students

1,635 tons of carbon pollutants will be spewed into the air by the jet and airplanes used by Madonna, who claims she is committed toward being “environmentally responsible,” and her 250 person entourage in her “Sticky and Sweet” concert tour, according to the Carbonfootprint Web site

3,000 to 10,000 subscribers have canceled their subscriptions to the gossip magazine “US Weekly”, and many complained to advertisers, after the editors attempted to use a recent issue to destroy Governor Sarah Palin, according to columnist Warner Todd Huston

1.3 million - the number of illegal aliens who have voluntarily returned to Mexico, according to FOX News, a benefit from enforcing existing immigration laws

$4 million - the amount John Edwards has returned to individual contributors, a number of them, bundlers and big backers. The “little people” got far less, according to columnist P.J. Gladnick who reviewed the information at: OpenSecrets.org and Federal Election Commission data.

1.8 billion - the number of acres of the Outer Continental Shelf - with roughly 100 billion barrels of recoverable oil and 400 trillion feet of natural gas - that are off-limits because of the congressional moratorium

10 billion to 20 billion - the number of barrels of oil in ANWR, according to the U.S. Geological Survey

100 billion - the number of barrels of oil in the Arctic, and roughly one-third of these under sovereign U.S. territory in Alaska, according to the U.S. Geological Survey

$620 billion - the total federal, state and local government expenditures on 85 welfare programs in 2005, larger than national defense ($495 billion) or public education ($472 billion). The 2005 official poverty count was 37 million persons. That means welfare expenditures per poor person were $16,750, or $67,000 for a poor family of four, according to Edgar K. Browning, a Texas A&M University economics professor, and the author of "Stealing from Each Other: How the Welfare State Robs Americans of Money and Spirit"

800 billion to 2 trillion - the number of barrels of oil in the Rocky Mountain shale formations, according to old estimate from the U.S. Geological Survey

$1.6 trillion - the annual amount of U.S. sales abroad; “more than ever before in our history,” according to columnist Donald Lambro

News by the Numbers: August 2008

• 0 - The number of Democrats who joined Rep. Roy Blunt, the House Republican whip, to co-sponsor a resolution demanding that the Defense Department better enable U.S. military personnel overseas to vote in the November elections, effectively killing the proposal in the Democratic-controlled House.
• 0.01 percent - of ANWR's 19 million acres was projected to produce about 10 billion barrels of oil. From all domestic sources combined, we currently produce about 1.8 billion barrels of oil per year, according to Anne Coulter.
• 10-to-1 - the margin of coverage given to Barack Obama’s trip to the Middle East and Europe compared to John McCain’s very similar trip last March.
• 20-to-1 - the margin of donations between the number of journalists who donated to Barack Obama and John McCain, according to Investor's Business Daily.
• 5% - of American taxpayers now pay 60% of all federal taxes.
• 24% - of oil was imported by the U.S. in 1970. Today 70% is imported thanks to the ongoing Democrat blockade against American energy independence.
• 40% - the increased risk of developing mental disorders in teenagers who smoke Marijuana, according to a study by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
• 49-to-45% - the lead given John McCain over Barack Obama among likely voters, according to a July 27 Gallup/USAToday poll
• 50% - of the 9/11 hijackers were registered to vote. Fraudulent votes by non-citizens, including illegal aliens, could swing this year's local and national elections, according to a new report titled "The Threat of Non-Citizen Voting" by Hans von Spakovsky, a visiting scholar at the Heritage Foundation.
• 55% - of registered voters said Barack Obama would a “riskier” choice for president, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
• 57% of Virginians voted to constitutionally protect the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman but Barack Obama wants to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act and has publicly opposed state marriage amendments.
• 83% - of U.S. voters say it is more important for immigrants to speak English as their primary language than it is for Americans to learn other languages, according to a Scott Rasumssen poll.
• 1 - 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant would reliably generate more electricity than 2,800 1.5-megawatt intermittent wind turbines on 175,000 acres.
• 3 times - the amount which oil companies have made in profits over the past 25 years has been paid in taxes by this scapegoated industry, according to economist John Lott.
• 5 - states do not require that driver's license applicants be able to show they are in the United States legally. Maryland is one of these states, according to the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA).
• 19 times - bigger than Enron but the ‘All-Obama-All-the-Time’ Networks didn't see the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac financial crisis coming.
• 197 - the number of days Americans now work to pay their share of the cost of government, with 84 of those days due to federal spending alone, according to Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW).
• 890 - Senate bills passed this session but Queen Pelosi, and her decidedly un-democratic Democrats controlling the Senate, allowed debate only on 50.
• $32,000 - annual income means you will pay higher taxes if Barack Obama has his way. He has already voted for congressional budgets that would effectively raise your taxes.
• 8,000 people are thought to remain in slavery after being captured during Sudan's north-south conflict. Democrats are expected to apologize after they return from summer vacation.
• 550,000 - more foreign workers will be allowed into the country to take American jobs if Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) gets his way. Menendez has put a "hold" on the vote to re-authorize the E-Verify system (the easy-to-use government database businesses use to make sure they do not hire illegal aliens) in order to strong-arm the opposition.
• 140 million - women are estimated to have undergone forced genital mutilation. The practice is predominant in the Islamic culture.
• $1 billion - of the $10 billion in annual Medicare payments the government makes for medical equipment are later deemed improper, according to the Government Accountability Office.
• $7 billion - annually is spent by the government on ethanol subsidies
• $8 billion+ - annually is spent by the government supplying 30 million school children with “free” lunches and another $2.5 billion on “free” breakfasts, according to Michael Medved.
• 90 billion - barrels of oil and nearly a third of the world's undiscovered natural gas remain untapped under an area north of the Arctic Circle, government scientists estimate.
• $1.5 trillion - the amount OPEC will clear in net export profits this year.
• $18 trillion - the entire worth of the U.S. Fortune 500, according to Robert Zubrin, author of the best-selling "Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil.”
  

  
  

News by the Numbers - July 2008

• 10 years of scholarly studies "have shown that states that sent a higher fraction of convicts to prison had lower rates of crime, even after controlling for all of the other ways -- poverty, urbanization, and the proportion of young men in the population -- that the states differed. A high risk of punishment reduces crime. Deterrence works," according to social scientist James Q. Wilson.
• 22 of the top 50 songs on Billboard’s Top 20 between February 29 and June 5 contained sexualized content, going beyond simple love songs to discuss sexual attraction and arousal, according to the Culture and Media Institute. Of these 22 songs, 13 or 26% were so explicit they deserve to be called sexually degrading – they reduce women to sexual objects and men to sexual predators.
• Over 33% of the workforce was unemployed during the Great Depression. The national jobless rate today is 5.5 percent (between 4 percent and 5 percent in many states)
• 41% of Americans want Congress to repeal the corn ethanol mandate entirely, while 35% want Congress to repeal the law it passed just last December, which will double it, according to a Wilson Research Strategies poll.
• 49% of Exxon Mobile’s first-quarter gross income this year went to pay worldwide taxes. That’s $9.3 billion in in the first quarter.
• 50 miles off the coast of Florida, Communist Cuba is working with China and others to drill for natural gas and oil while Congress has prohibited America from drilling in the area.
• 51% of voters said Barack Obama was more likely to raise taxes, while only 33% said John McCain, according to a recent Rasmussen poll.
• 57% of Americans support drilling for more oil in offshore fields and in wilderness areas, according to the latest Gallup poll.
• 60% of Americans agreed with the statement that tax hikes hurt the economy. Nearly half of Democrats agreed, as did 60% of Independents, 57% of African-Americans, and a whopping 70% of voters under 30, according to a Rasmussen poll.
  
• 75% of adults would support the next President if he were to do all in his Constitutional power to ensure that federal obscenity laws are enforced vigorously, according to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive in April 2008.
• 81% of Americans, Republican, Democrat and Independents, believe that the nation’s moral state is “getting worse,” according to a recent Gallop poll.
• Over 80% of the nation's population growth results from immigration and births to immigrants. In California, immigration accounts for virtually 100% of the population growth, according to Californians for Population Stabilization.
• 90% of homeless and runaway children live apart from their fathers, according to government statistics.
• Over 1 million green cards are issued per year, far in excess of the 226,000 family cap and the 140,000 employment-based cap, according to Congressman Steve King (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Immigration Subcommittee.
$12 million was donated to the ACLU by leftist Billionaire George Soros towards their $335 million fund raising campaign
• Over $100 billion annually is spent for social-welfare services to families without fathers.
  
• 600 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas resources and 100 billion barrels of oil are estimated to lie in America's deep ocean energy reserves, according to Americans for American Energy.

News by the Numbers - June 2008

• 3 out of 4 Americans would support the next president if he were to aggressively enforce obscenity laws, according to a study commissioned by Morality in Media.
• The top 5 baby boy names are Biblical - Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel, according to the Social Security Administration.
• 16 of the world's most polluted cities are in China, according to the World Health Organization.
• 62% of voters would prefer fewer government services with lower taxes, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey
• 69% of China's electricity is generated with coal. China's carbon-dioxide emissions per unit of output are 5 times that of America's. Crippling the U.S. economy for the benefit of the Chinese expansion only worsen the global environment, according to the U.S. Business Industry Council
• 157 Jihad attacks were executed in 18 countries during the month of May, killing 653 and wounding 1,053, according to TheReligionofPeace.com. Muslim terrorists have perpetrated 11,226 deadly terror attacks since 9/11.
• 1,293 whites, a large percentage of whom were Republicans, were lynched by the Ku Klux K!an (KKK) between the years 1882 and 1951 because of their support for black civil rights
• 10 million jobs would be created by opening up 2,000 acres of ANWR, the 19,049,236 acre Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, for oil production, according to Raymond S. Kraft of FamilySecurityMatters.org
• 37 million acres of land throughout the United States are currently under the control of land trusts. According to a new report by the National Center for Public Policy Research all-too-often that acquired land, placed under "conservation easements," goes from the land trust right into the governing hands of the largest landowner in the United States, the federal government.
• 279 million acres under federal management where oil and gas could potentially could be extracted, according to the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM). More than half of it is totally off-limits to drillers.
• $776 million in additional taxes to finance the cost of divorce are paid annually by Virginians to "antipoverty, criminal justice, and education programs, and through lower levels of taxes paid by individuals who, as adults, earn less because of reduced opportunities as a result of having been more likely to grow up in poverty," according to a study by the Institute for American Values, et al., costing "U.S. taxpayers at least $112 billion each and every year."
• $12 billion a year is spent educating school-aged illegal immigrants in grades K-12, 1.5 million students in American classrooms are in the U.S. illegally
• 85.9 billion barrels of oil lie offshore, according to the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service. All expansion of offshore oil recovery is currently off-limits.
• $256 billion a year is exported to OPEC for oil, mostly to Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria. That's more than one-third of the US trade deficit of $720 billion.
  

News by the Numbers: 04/08

• 8.5% - the increase in production at America’s largest baby-killing factories at Planned Parenthood where revenue topped $1 Billion
• 33% or $336.7 million of Planned Parenthood revenue is provided by American taxpayers
• 51 stories about atheism ran on ABC, NBC and CBS in 2007. 80% had a positive tone, and 20% were neutral. None of the stories were negative, according to the Media Research Center
• 56% of American oppose abortion, according to a 2004 Zogby poll
• 64% of all syphilis cases are found in men who have sex with men (MSM) even though they make up only 1%-2% of the population, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The FDA says MSM have an HIV prevalence 60X higher than the general population... 5-6X more infections with the Hepatitis B virus, and about 2X more Hepatitis C virus infections.
• 84% of “millennials” - those between 21 and 29 - respect the military, revere marriage and respect the U.S. Constitution, according to a survey by J. Walter Thompson, the nation's largest advertising agency
• 94% of Millennials said they respect monogamy and parenthood, according to the Thompson survey
• 100 campuses hosted Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week II, April 7-11, to educate the public about the threat of radical Islam despite heavy PC pressure from liberals
• 100 Muslim Student Associations were asked a month ago to sign the Declaration Against Genocide. The Declaration calls on “student governments and Muslim groups” to condemn Hezbollah and Hamas, and repudiate the saying of the prophet Mohammed that redemption will only come when Muslims fight Jews and kill them, when the rocks and trees cry out Oh Muslim there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him. None of them have.
• $2,074 - the average tax increase that will hit 17.5 million seniors if President Bush’s tax increases are allowed to expire, according to the Heritage Foundation
• $22,100 - the amount each household pays in taxes, more than twice what it was in 1965 (inflation-adjusted to 2007 dollars), according to the Heritage Foundation
• 289,750 dead babies were produced by Planned Parenthood from July 2006 to June 2007
• 1,103,000 jobs were added to the economy in January and February contrary to reports from the old media which ceaselessly advocates for a recession
• 50 million - Chinese bibles have been produced in China to date, and sold through official churches. China will produce 25% of the world’s bibles by 2009
• $150 million - the largest donation to the University of Virginia, made by Virginia taxpayers, courtesy of the General Assembly, to support the university's operations
• $660 million - the amount Planed Parenthood would still have left to use to kill babies that they believe do not deserve to live, even if they lost all taxpayer funding
• $15 billion - the initial price of the Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008, obligating taxpayers to bail out irresponsible borrowers and their irresponsible lenders.
• $60 billion - the amount of waste, fraud, and abuse annually in Medicare and Medicaid programs

News by the Numbers: 03/08

• 1/8 - of America’s population was made up of immigrants in 2006: 12 million illegal and 26 million legal immigrants.
• $.076 - of every dollar of sales is profit in America’s oil and natural gas industry, which is not that much different from any other manufacturing industry, but they are forced to compete with huge government-owned oil and natural gas companies in foreign nations.
• 9% - American citizens aged 18-64 are without a high school degree
• 10% - the amount that hourly wages for American citizen high school graduates decreased in the last 25 years, relative to inflation
• 12 to 27% - the rate at which homosexual men report being victims of childhood sexual abuse [which is] much higher than rates for other men, which typically range from 1 to 4 percent”, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) research
• under 18 - the age that those who "came out" as "gay" at an earlier age were the most likely to have had "forced sex”, according to CDC research
• 20% - the amount that hourly wages for American citizen high school dropouts decreased in the last 25 years, relative to inflation
• 25% - of all the human intelligence obtained by the CIA from 2002 to 2006 came by using water boarding on terror leaders who have posed the utmost threat to our security. A little water up the nose and they sang like canaries.
• 33% - of legal immigrants haven't completed high school
• 33% - of the jobs lost by African American high school dropouts over the last few decades are due to immigration
• 50% - of illegal aliens would voluntarily return to their countries within five years if our illegal immigration policy was "attrition through enforcement", according to the Center for Immigration Studies
• 66% - of illegal aliens haven't completed high school
• $10,217.04 - the amount collected in Virginia’s “Tax Me More Fund” since it was created in 2002. Kinda makes you wonder how many Democratic lawmakers calling for tax increases this year have contributed.
• $20 million - the amount BIll Clinton stands to gain from post-presidential work as a financial consultant for longtime supporter Ron Burkle, a billionaire investor
• $1 billion - more per day is spent by the U.S. on oil than just two years ago
• $1.4 billion - was lost in the form of lower wages in 2006 by uneducated legal workers in Arizona who were forced to compete with illegal aliens who accept lower pay without benefits, according to Harvard economist George Borjas
• $40 billion - the amount immigrant households consumed in public services above and beyond the amount they paid in taxes annually; adjusted for inflation and the current number of immigrants, based on National Academy of Sciences estimates.
• 2 trillion - barrels in oil shale lie in the western U.S. and Canada. Drilling in one location is currently being held up for fear of the effect on polar bears although their population has tripled in the last 50 years.

News by the Numbers: 02/08

• 3 - the number of times Puerto Ricans have gone to the polls and rejected statehood in order for their island nation to remain a self-governing U.S. commonwealth, the last occurring in 1998.
• 4.2% - the amount overall economic growth could decline if the Kyoto Treaty were enacted, according to estimates made by the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) during the Clinton Administration.
• 7% - legalized abortion actually increased the murder rate by this amount, according to economist, John Lott.
• 23.9% - of Americans said they believe little or nothing that comes out of the Main Stream Media (MSM), according to a Sacred Heart University poll.
• 46 - black colleges, out of 53, had a graduation rate of or lower than 50 percent, according to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.
• 48% - of at-home mothers consider not working their ideal situation, according to a 2007 Pew survey.
• 90% - of the land in the United States is undeveloped and forests alone cover more area than all the cities and towns in the country combined.
• 100+ - homicides are currently under investigation as potential Islamic “honor killings” in Great Britain.
• 261 - Hillary Clinton’s earmarks, more than twice as many as any other member of Congress seeking the presidency.
• 253 - the number of times armed troops and police from Mexico have invaded America between 1996 and 2006, according to the U.S. government which apparently did nothing to protect our citizens and our sovereignty.
• 751 - the number of “no-go” areas in France, controlled by Muslims which have also become major drug trafficking centers for organized crime.
• 1927 - el Ikhwan (the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt) was formed to "cleanse the whole world of the infidels."
• 1979 - Saudi Arabia officially declared great Jihad
• $303,000 - a Hillary earmark awarded to a “Gay” lobby group whose top legislative agenda item at the federal level involves changing immigration policy to eliminate HIV/AIDS as grounds for inadmissibility as a disease of public health significance.
• 489,000 - claims have been filed over Hurricanes Katrina and Rita which caused about $100 billion in physical damage. The federal government has already dedicated more than $130 billion on recovery. Claimants are seeking an Edwardsesque $3,006,001,000,000,000.
• $4 billion - is spent on climate research annually.
• 9 million - acres of wilderness in Utah will be designated as wilderness, raising the cost of energy and hurting low-income families the most, if U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y. has his way
• $10 billion - the net fiscal cost at the federal level alone to American taxpayers of illegal immigrant households in one year, estimated by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
• $29 billion - the annual cost to taxpayers should illegal aliens be granted amnesty, according to the CIS.
• $848.6 billion - the cost of one term of Hillary Clinton’s presidency to taxpayers, according to the Republican National Committee.