100 election facts for the 100 days to go until Voting Day

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Guardian staff
Sunday 31 July 2016 11.00 BST


We take a look back at the highlights and lowlights of a long campaign season as election 2016 finally heads into the homestretch



Less than 100 days ago, Barack Obama was able to joke at a dinner with Washington’s elite that the 2016 presidential election risked “the end of the republic”. Everyone laughed.



With exactly 100 days to go until what Hillary Clinton now calls a “moment of reckoning” on 8 November, neither Democrats nor Republicans are smiling any more.


The rise and rise of Donald Trump has crept up on a world distracted by a host of challenges: seemingly interminable terrorist slaughter, Zika and Brexit have numbed many. But the notion that we could all wake up on 9 November to a gameshow host measuring new gold curtains for the Oval Office still has the power to shock.


Normal rules suggest Trump can’t win in November. But 2016 is not normal. Here, with emojis, are 100 reasons why.

1 Number of times a woman has been the presidential nominee of the Republicans or Democrats.


2 Number of times Hillary Clinton has  for president.


3 Number of times Donald Trump put a  on it – and the number of proposal attempts needed before Hillary said  to Bill.


4 Number of times Donald Trump’s businesses have  for bankruptcy .


5 Number of ingredients in Jeb Bush’s famous Sunday Funday guacamole recipe – avocados, cilantro, onion, jalapeño, garlic - which you could make in Bush’s official merchandise “Guaca Bowles”, once flogged at his online store for $75.


6 The number of tracks – five songs and a “bonus conversation” – on Bernie Sanders’ folk  record, released in 1987. We Shall Overcome was Sanders’ first and last foray into  . The Vermont senator described it as “the worst album ever recorded”.


7 The number of days Carly Fiorina was a candidate for vice-president.


8 Date in November when the election takes place.


9 Number of emails it took between Hillary Clinton and her adviser Huma Abedin for Clinton to figure out how to use a  machine.


10 Number of collective grand between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton (both candidates have had grandsons born during this campaign).

 

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11 Age of Karla Ortiz, who �� at the DNC this week about her fears for her parents, who are undocumented migrants from Guatemala. Karla tearfully asked Clinton back in February about her parents getting deported and the encounter was turned into a campaign ad.


12 Number of Republican presidential debates ... and the date in July when Bernie finally, finally endorsed Hillary.


13 The number of states which held primary contests on Super Tuesday, 1 March.


14 Ben Carson’s tax plan featured a flat rate of 14.9%.


15 Team Clinton is outspending Team Trump 15-1 on �� and �� advertising, based on numbers out in early July. Clinton and associated Super Pacs spent $45m on ads, with Trump doling out just $3m for radio and TV ads.

16 Number of Republican candidates beaten by Donald Trump.


17 The number of episodes aired of Joanie loves Chachi, the former sitcom that starred the GOP convention speaker Scott Baio.


18 Number of consecutive days Ben Carson spent on the campaign trail before returning to Florida to “get a fresh set of ������”.

19 Date in March 2000 when The Simpsons joked about Trump being president. “As you know, we’ve inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump,” said President Lisa Simpson.



20 Number in millions of new people who have �� �� care after Obama’s reforms - Trump has vowed to abolish Obamacare.

 

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[FONT=&quot]21 Amount in millions that Carly Fiorina, who ran in the Republican primaries, received in �� as a golden parachute from her job as CEO and chairman of Hewlett-Packard after the board of directors asked her to �� in 2005.

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[FONT=&quot]22 Trump’s age when he was “medically disqualified” from the draft for the Vietnam war. In 2015, Trump said it was due to bone spurs in his ��.

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[FONT=&quot]23 Donald Trump took part in Wrestlemania XXIII in 2007. He body-slammed the WWE chief executive, Vince McMahon, then shaved his head … Also the number of minutes the Texas senator Ted Cruz spoke at the Republican National Convention in July, where he encouraged the GOP to “ your conscience” rather than endorsing Trump and was booed out of the auditorium.

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[FONT=&quot]24 Date in July 2016, when Obama’s half-brother Malik Obama revealed he would vote for Trump over his brother’s endorsed candidate. “I like Donald Trump because he speaks from the �� ,” said Malik Obama, who lives in Kenya and holds US citizenship. “Make ���� great again is a great slogan.”

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[FONT=&quot]25 The number of times Donald Trump said the word “deal” during a primary debate in Miami, Florida.

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[FONT=&quot]26 The date in April when Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island held their primaries.

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[FONT=&quot]27 The average donation in “dollahs” Bernie Sanders received from his supporters.

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[FONT=&quot]28 Number of member countries of Nato, an organization that Donald Trump has said is obsolete.

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[FONT=&quot]29 Number of electoral votes in the crucial swing state of Florida.

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[FONT=&quot]30 Cost in �� of a bottle of Trump vodka, a failed Trump business scheme that launched in 2006 with the slogan “Success Distilled”. The �� is no longer in production.[/FONT]

 

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31 The percentage of eligible voters �� ���� ���� ���� in the 2016 election who are not white.


32 Millions of dollars raised by Ted �� in the first quarter of 2016.


33 Number in thousands of �� deleted from Hillary Clinton’s private server without being handed over to the federal government for archival purposes.


34 Number of �� won by Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primary season – Bernie Sanders took 23.


35 The US constitution states that the president must be at least 35 years old. Both Clinton and Trump are over 35 ... Also the amount that Trump wants to tax �� �� that are imported from ���� in order to keep production in the ���� .
36 Number of states that Rick Perry, the former Texas governor and failed GOP candidate, thinks Donald Trump can win in the general election. “I think we have the potential to win overwhelmingly,” he said. “I’m talking a 35, 36, 37-state victory. Just a powerful win in November,” he said.


37 Approximate amount in tens of millions ($375m in total) raised by the Hillary Clinton campaign up to June 2016. That includes money raised by the candidate as well as affiliated Super Pacs.


38 The percentage of the vote Hillary Clinton received in an early state blowout loss to Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire.


39 The number of speeches given by Bill and Hillary Clinton to big banks, including Goldman Sachs and UBS, producing $7.7m in speaking fees for the couple.


40 The number of the Republican �� rule that kept candidates besides Trump from being formally nominated in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention.

 

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[FONT=&quot]41 Number of contests won by Donald Trump during the �� primary season.

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[FONT=&quot]42 If Clinton �� , husband Bill Clinton, the 42nd president, will be the first president since Grover Cleveland to return to living in the White �� after another leader has been there. But he’ll be the first former president to return as a presidential spouse.

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[FONT=&quot]43 The absence of George W Bush (aka 43) in Cleveland marked the first time in four decades that no member of the Bush family attended the GOP convention.

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[FONT=&quot]44 Age of Ted Cruz when he �� his candidacy in Lynchburg, Virginia in 2015.

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[FONT=&quot]45 The next president will be the 45th president of the United States.

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[FONT=&quot]46 Chapter written by Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas Governor and GOP hopeful, in the book �� Soup for the Soul: Billy Graham & Me, about seeing the evangelical preacher as a teenager.

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[FONT=&quot]47 The percentage of Americans who are dependent on government who would vote for Barack Obama no matter what, according to controversial comments made by Mitt Romney during the 2012 election.

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[FONT=&quot]48 Number of superdelegates won by Bernie Sanders.

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[FONT=&quot]49 Ladder 49 was a 2004 John Travolta �� in which Martin O’Malley, briefly a Democratic presidential hopeful, made a cameo.

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[FONT=&quot]50 Donald Trump said he would forgive $50m he personally loaned to his presidential campaign.[/FONT]

 

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[FONT=&quot]51 Number of Federalist Papers by founding father Alexander Hamilton to defend the US constitution, a fact �� in the Broadway musical Hamilton. Clinton has seen the show three times, and hosted a July performance as a campaign fundraiser, with �� ranging from $2,700 to $100,000.

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[FONT=&quot]52 Number of -in votes Ben Carson received in the New Hampshire Democratic primary. Trump received 1,795.

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[FONT=&quot]53 Highest percentage point Hillary Clinton has reached in match-ups against Donald Trump �� by RealClearPoliticssince May.

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[FONT=&quot]54 Amount in thousands that the former Rhode Island governor and senator Lincoln Chafee raised for his presidential bid. Chafee dropped out before the first primary.[/FONT]
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55 Number of electoral votes in California, the largest state in the country by population.

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[FONT=&quot]56 Percentage of the vote Jeb Bush received his 2002 re-election for governor, his last campaign before ���� for president.

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[FONT=&quot]57 Number of jurisdictions that vote in a Democratic presidential primary: 50 states, Washington DC, five territories and Democrats Abroad.

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[FONT=&quot]58 Age of the Virginia senator Tim Kaine, Clinton’s veep pick, who �� fluent Spanish and was widely regarded as the “safe” pick.

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[FONT=&quot]59 The year Hillary Clinton posed for a photo with her pet �� . The �� was called Isis, which is the name of an Egyptian goddess as well as a terrorist organization.

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[FONT=&quot]60 The amount, in thousands, Donald Trump’s impressive hair weave cost,according to a Gawker investigation …[/FONT]

 

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[FONT=&quot]61 Former Democratic candidate Martin O’Malley was the 61st governor of Maryland. He received just over one half of 1% of the delegates in the Iowa caucuses before dropping out.

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[FONT=&quot]62 The number of times Hillary Clinton referred directly to Trump during a major foreign policy �� she gave in San Diego, California in June.

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[FONT=&quot]63 Age of Gary Johnson, the pot �� governor of New Mexico who is the 2016 presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party.

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[FONT=&quot]64 The size, in points, of failed GOP candidate Marco Rubio’s lead in the first Senate poll after he changed his mind yet again and decided to run for re-election after dropping out.

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[FONT=&quot]65 The height of Donald Trump’s border wall in �� . It has also fluctuated between 30, 45 and 55ft, depending upon his mood.

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[FONT=&quot]66 Number of delegates John Kasich, another unsuccessful GOP candidate, won in his �� state winner-take-all primary of Ohio.

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[FONT=&quot]67 The current retirement age for those �� after 1960.

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[FONT=&quot]68 The number of �� Donald Trump insulted in public in 2015, according to the Washington Post.

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[FONT=&quot]69 Age Hillary Clinton will be when inaugurated if she becomes president.

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[FONT=&quot]70 Age Donald Trump will be when inaugurated if he becomes president.[/FONT]

 

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[FONT=&quot]71 Percentage of Hispanics who voted Democratic in 2012, according to exit polls. Trump is not expected to make inroads into that lead.

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[FONT=&quot]72 Percentage of US respondents in a mid-July poll that said the country is on the “wrong track”.

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[FONT=&quot]73 Number of paid employees in June on the Trump campaign.

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[FONT=&quot]74 Bernie Sanders is this many years young .


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[FONT=&quot]75 Length in minutes of Donald Trump’s speech at the Republican national convention in Cleveland, the longest such speech in decades.

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[FONT=&quot]76 Percent chance that Clinton has of winning the general election, based on data collated by the New York Times and released in mid-July.

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[FONT=&quot]77 The year Donald Trump Ivana Zelníčková, mother of Donald Trump Jr, Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump, and Trump’s first ex-wife.

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[FONT=&quot]78 Percentage of claims made by Donald Trump this election cycle that have proved to be wrong or false , according to Politifact. The site fact-checked 158 statements Trump has made and found 123 were “mostly false”, “false” or “pants on .”

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[FONT=&quot]79 Year Clinton became the first female partner at the Law Firm in Arkansas and became with daughter Chelsea. “I was the only female partner, and they’d never had a female partner and certainly not a pregnant female partner. And they literally just were what to do with me. I would walk down the corridor getting more and more pregnant, and the men in the firm would like away, never say a ,” she has said when talking about balancing work and family.

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[FONT=&quot]80 The year Ronald Reagan swept to power, running on the campaign slogan “make America great again”, appropriated 36 years later by Donald Trump.[/FONT]

 

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81 Year that Ivanka Trump, known as her father’s favorite – she introduced him at the RNC last week, arguing that he was “�� blind and gender ��” and would fight for working women – was born.


82 Age of Larry Sanders, Bernie’s older brother, who cast a vote for his sibling as a delegate of Democrats Abroad at the DNC this week, dedicating it to his parents. “They did not have easy lives, and they died young. They would be immensely proud of their son and his accomplishments. They �� him,” he said.


83 Hillary Clinton was named Arkansas woman of the year 1983 – she was the state’s first lady to governor Bill. During the previous year’s campaign she had often called herself Mrs Bill Clinton.



84 Year that Trump’s �� �� first became a topic of speculation, after Graydon Carter, now Vanity Fair editor, described him in a GQ profile as “ �� small and neatly groomed”.

85 Year Mike Pence, Trump’s veep pick and the governor of Indiana, �� his wife Karen.

86 Donald Trump’s highest recent golf score.


87 The year Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz published the businessman’s best-selling �� Trump: The Art of the Deal.


88 The year that Trump told Oprah Winfrey “probably not”, when she asked him on her show if he’d ever run for president, after he complained about US foreign trade deals. But he still hedged his �� on how he’d go in a hypothetical run. “I think I’d win,” he said. “I’ll tell you what: I wouldn’t go in to lose.”


89 Number of delegates won by Donald Trump in ��.


90 Percentage of “consistent” Sanders supporters who back Hillary Clinton in the election, according to the latest Pew Research Center data.

 

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91 Percentage of the that Donald Trump �� in the �� primary in McDowell County, West Virginia.


92 The year of Bill �� Clinton’s first presidential election – Hillary drew controversy for saying she was not “some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette” in response to allegations that her husband had been caught in another extra-marital affair.


93 Melania Trump’s great �� at the Republican convention stole from Michelle Obama – but it was not plagiarism, Trump henchman Chris Christie said, “not when 93% of the speech is completely different”.


94 Year that Bill Clinton’s crime bill – a tough-on-crime stance that encouraged prison time, urged intervention in domestic violence and expanded the death sentence, creating a system of mass incarceration of blacks and Latinos – was introduced. “I’m sorry for the consequences that were unintended and that had a very unfortunate impact on people’s lives,” Hillary Clinton said in April.


95 The price in millions of dollars a Russian oligarch paid Donald Trump for a Palm Beach mansion in Florida, which Trump had bought at a bankruptcy auction four years earlier for $41m.


96 Tens of thousands of miles �� �� �� by Hillary Clinton as secretary of state (we’re rounding up; it was 956,733 miles and 112 countries).


97 The year in which Donald Trump in his book The �� of the Comeback: “I think I’m too honest, and perhaps too controversial, to be a politician ... I would probably not be a very successful politician.”


98 Amount in millions raised by the Trump campaign up until June 2016, including cash from Super Pacs. That’s $277m less than Team Clinton.


99 Number of cents it costs to buy one of Green �� nominee Jill Stein’s songs by her folk-pop band Somebody’s Sister, who �� �� four albums in the 1990s, off Amazon.


�� Proportion of African-American voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania who said they would for Trump in a recent poll.

 

[Willie99]

I had no prior opinion about The Guardian, but after reading this fluff piece it reminded me of all that NYT brilliance

So I googled it, yep, a liberal rag based on almost every one of multiple reviews (it appears even British liberals think it's liberal, something our liberals just can never admit)

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Another number of interest.


84. The number of hours between ISIS attacks in Europe.