Ames Progressive

Number of years Iowa has held its “first in the nation” caucus status: 31
Estimated dollar amount brought in to Iowa by the caucuses in 2004: 50-60 million
Estimates for this year: 100-120 million
(http://www.iowacaucus.org/iacaucus.html)

Percent of party nomination Bush received in Iowa in 2000: 41
Percent of party nomination Clinton received in Iowa in 1992: 3
Percent of party nomination H. W. Bush received in Iowa in 1988: 22
Percent of party nomination Reagan received in Iowa in 1980: 30
(http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17167964)

Number of senators in the presidential race: 5
Number of those senators who voted for a resolution calling on the Bush administration to declare Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization: 1 (Hillary Clinton)
Number who voted against it: 2 (Joe Biden, Chris Dodd)
Number who did not vote on this issue: 2 (Barack Obama, John McCain)
(http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/issues/iran/index.html)

Combined dollar amount raised by all the 2008 candidates to be spent on fundraising: 28 million
Combined dollar amount raised by all the 2008 candidates: 420 million
Estimated dollar amount the eventual nominees will each need to raise: 500 million
(http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/index.asp?cycle=2008)
Dollars raised by Ron Paul in his one day online fund raising campaign: 6.2 million
(http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Ron-Paul-Interview.html?_r=1&oref=slogin)

Number of major Democratic Party Candidates: 8
Number invited to the Des Moines Register’s debate: 6