Category: Enumerati

$354,348

Amount of a subsidy from the state of California received by the company that made Bristol Palin’s reality TV show about raising her child, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports.

35

The age the U.S. Constitution says American presidents must be to take office. According to The Atlantic: “An important deadline for Election 2048 is fast approaching… parents who want their children to be eligible for that election cycle should start trying to conceive now or in the immediate future, generations of accumulated data about fertility and the length of gestation suggest.”

62%

Of those surveyed support an immigration reform proposal that would allow illegal or undocumented immigrants to earn citizenship over a period of several years; 35% oppose it, according to a new Politico/George Washington University Battleground poll. “The poll reveals significantly greater overall support, 77%, for an immigration law that allows the children of illegal or undocumented immigrants to earn the right to stay here permanently if they complete a college degree or serve in the military. Just 19% oppose this key element of the so-called DREAM Act.”

$1.123 billion vs. $1.019 billion

Amounts raised by the Obama and Romney presidential campaigns, respectively, in the most expensive presidential race ever.

7.7%

The unemployment rate for November was the lowest since December 2008.

51% to 40%

Spread by which Michelle Obama already leads Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), if she decides she wants to follow the Hillary Clinton path once her husband leaves office in January 2017 and run for U.S. Senate, a new Public Policy Polling survey finds.

53% to 40%

President Obama’s current approval rating, his best score in three years, according to a new Quinnipiac poll. Voters also trust Obama and Democrats more than Republicans, by a 53% to 36% margin, to avoid the “fiscal cliff.”

53%

of Americans say same-sex marriage should be legal, tying the record high, while 46% say it should not, according to Gallup.Americans who oppose same-sex marriage are most likely to cite religion or the Bible as the reason.

$841,145

Amount filmmaker Michael Moore received in tax incentives from the State of Michigan to make “Capitalism: A Love Story,” a documentary against corporate welfare, the New York Times reports.

$8 million

Amount Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) received as a payout to leave the conservative Tea Party group, FreedomWorks, “because of an internal split over the group’s future direction,” the AP reports. A confidential contract shows that Armey agreed in September to resign from his role as chairman of FreedomWorks in exchange for $8 million in consulting fees paid in annual $400,000 installments.