That’s how much super-political action committees have raised thus far in the 2012 election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group in Washington that tracks political giving. Super-PACs grew out of a series of regulatory and...
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A President Barack Obama supporter in Des Moines, Iowa.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: $240 M
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President Barack Obama during a campaign rally at Hillsborough Community College on June 22, 2012 in Tampa, Florida.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 359
That’s how many electoral votes President Barack Obama would have won in the 2008 election if it were re-run using revised Electoral College vote allocations that will be in effect for the November election. That’s a decrease of six from...
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Mitt Romney in Davenport, Iowa.
Magic Number of the Day: 52
That’s the number of electoral votes in the four states where Mitt Romney began airing new television ads today with promises about what he would do in his first 100 days as president. The ads are running in Ohio (18 electoral...
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Shopping
Magic Number of the Day: 22
That’s the share of people who think the U.S. economy is improving, compared to 33 percent who say it’s getting worse and 43 percent who say it’s staying the same, according to the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index. The 11-point gap...
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Shoppers in Santa Monica, California.
Magic Number of the Day: 45
That’s the share of respondents to a Bloomberg National Poll who said they are better off than they were when President Barack Obama was inaugurated, compared with 36 percent who said they are worse off and 17 percent who said...
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Antonio Villaraigosa is greeted by Filipino World War II veterans, including some who were on the Bataan Death March, at the Philippine Village Community Center in the Los Angeles.
Magic Number of the Day: 18.2 million
That’s the number of U.S. residents of Asian descent, according to Census Bureau estimates as of July 1, 2011. Asian-Americans accounted for about 5.8 percent of the nation’s population at that time, Census data show. Asians have surpassed Hispanics as...
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Mitt Romney, left, and Gov. Scott Walker at Monterey Mills during a campaign stop on June 18, 2012 in Janesville, Wis.
Magic Number of the Day: 74
That’s the number of electoral votes in the six states on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign bus tour, which takes him to Wisconsin (10 electoral votes) and Iowa (6) today. Romney will conclude the tour tomorrow in Michigan (16),...
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A teen fills out a job application during The Summer Youth Jobs & Training Expo 2012 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
Magic Number of the Day: 41
That’s the share of the nation’s net decline in full-time jobs among workers under age 25, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Youth employment is an issue in the presidential election between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt...
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A gasoline delivery in San Anselmo, California.
Magic Number of the Day: 40
That’s the drop in cents of the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in the past 10 weeks. The price was $3.532 yesterday, a four-month low down from a 2012 high of $3.936 on April 4. Declining...
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JPMorgan office building in New York.
Magic Number of the Day: $2 Billion
That’s the estimated amount of trading losses at the chief investment office of JP Morgan Chase & Co. The losses may be higher, though the $2 billion figure probably will be mentioned today at a Senate Banking Committee hearing in...
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