That’s the number of days that Republican Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine had served in Congress as of Feb. 28, when she announced that she would not seek re-election to the Senate this November. Snowe, 65, was first elected to...
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Sen. Olympia Snowe outside her office on Capitol Hill on Feb. 28, 2012.
Magic Number of the Day: 12,109
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A Rick Santorum supporter at a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 2012.
Magic Number of the Day: 466
That’s the total number of national Republican convention delegates among the 11 states holding a contest on Super Tuesday. It’s the single largest day of voting in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Georgia controls 76 delegates, the most...
Read more »Magic Number of the Day: 210,941
That’s how many U.S. home foreclosures there were in January, according to RealtyTrac Foreclosure Report. That’s about 1 in 624 households nationwide that are in some stage of foreclosure. While it’s come down 19 percent from a year ago, the...
Read more »Magic Number of the Day: $6.6 Million
That’s how much the Romney campaign has raised from the securities and investment industry, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Sometimes faulted on the trail for his close ties to the industry as a former private-equity executive at Bain...
Read more »Magic Number of the Day: 2,379
That’s the number of negative ads that a committee independently aiding Mitt Romney had aired in Ohio as of yesterday, according to data from New York-based Kantar Media’s CMAG, which tracks advertising. The group, Restore Our Future, aired 2,121 ads...
Read more »Magic Number of the Day: 1,195
That’s how many times that broadcast television stations in Michigan, which hold a crucial primary election on Feb. 28, aired ads on Feb. 22 from Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and two independent political committees, according to data from New York-based Kantar Media’s CMAG.
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