Category: Enumerati

$1,000

Amount Jon Huntsman has raised from New Hampshire residents, despite holding more than 80 events in the first primary state, Yahoo News reports.

275%

Amount that average inflation-adjusted after-tax income grew for the 1 percent of the population with the highest income from 1979 to 2007, according to the Congressional Budget Office. For others in the top 20 percent of the population, average real after-tax household income grew by 65 percent. By contrast, the budget office said, for the poorest fifth of the population, average real after-tax household income rose 18 percent. And for the three-fifths of people in the middle of the income scale, the growth in such household income was just under 40 percent.

26%

Of Americans — a record-low — favor a ban on handguns in the U.S. Also, for the first time, Americans are more likely to oppose (53%) than favor (43%) a ban on assault rifles. More broadly, Americans’ support for stricter handgun laws and passage of new gun laws is the lowest Gallup has measured.

1.3 million

Number of Twitter followers House Republicans have versus roughly 600,000 for their Democrat counterparts, according to The New York Times. Republican members also are far more active on Twitter, with more than 157,000 individual Twitter messages, versus roughly 62,000 for Democrats.

39%

Of Americans support the Occupy Wall Street movement while 35% say they oppose it, according to a new Pew Research/Washington Post poll . By contrast, more say they oppose the Tea Party movement than support it, 44% vs. 32%.

62% vs. 35%

Of Americans think the president of the United States should be elected on the basis of the national popular vote than by winning in the Electoral College. Democrats continue to be more favorable than Republicans to what would be a major constitutional change.

69%

Of respondents to a new The Hill Poll said the country is “in decline,” while 57% predict today’s kids won’t live better lives than their parents. Additionally, 83% of voters indicated they’re either very or somewhat worried about the future of the nation, with 49% saying they’re “very worried.”

0

Number of U.S. troops left in Iraq at the end of 2011, according to President Obama, as reported by ABC News.

+$1 trillion

What it cost — and many U.S. troops’ lives — to topple Saddam, but only about a $1 billion to topple Khaddafy without the loss of a single U.S. soldier.

53%

Of Americans blame President Obama for the nation’s economic problems — the first time a majority blames him, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll. Key findings: 53% say Obama deserved “a great deal” or a “moderate amount” of blame for the economic problems the country currently faces. But an even larger number — 69% — said that former President George Bush deserved a “great deal” or a “moderate amount” of blame for the economy.