Notable numbers: Voters, household income and dirty sheets

Simulated flood map for Wilmington, NC. Technology allows forecasters to produce such maps that appear extremely accurate, but the underlying information used to create the map often means the areas likely to be flooded are just a best guess. xxx

80 The number of days in 2015 that Wilmington experienced tidal nuisance flooding or “sunny day” flooding, by far the greatest number of days on the East Coast

40+ The number of days Annapolis, Maryland, experienced such flooding

40+ The number of days Charleston, S.C., did

49 The percentage of Americans aged 45 or over who wash their sheets every week

17 The percentage of those under 30 who do

27 The percentage of those under 30 who wait a month or six weeks to wash their sheets

10 The percentage who wait seven weeks or more

76 The percentage of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters who were white in 1992

57 The percentage who are white today

17 The percentage of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters who were black in 1992

21 The percentage who are black today

6 The percentage of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters who were Hispanic in 1992

12 The percentage who are Hispanic today

93 The percentage of Republican voters who were white in 1992

86 The percentage who are white today

38 The percentage of GOP voters in 1992 who were age 50 or older

58 The percentage who are that age today

42 The percentage of Democratic voters who were age 50 or older in 1992

48 The percentage who are age 50 or older today

5.2 The increase in the median U.S. household income in 2015 over 2014

$56,516 What the median income was in 2015

2007 The last year there was an increase

60 The percentage of U.S. households that still have incomes lower than 2007

1.2 The percentage point drop in the poverty rate

1968 The last year there was a drop that great

207,438 The number of ballots cast by mail in North Carolina in 2012

51 The percentage of those that came from registered Republicans

28 The percentage from Democrats

21 The percentage from unaffiliated

421 The total number of mail-in ballots from Libertarians

15,677 The number of Democrats in North Carolina who have asked for mail-in ballots for November

14,879 The number of Republicans who have

11,839 The number of unaffiliated who have

138 The number of Libertarians who have

This story was originally published September 16, 2016 at 3:50 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Voters, household income and dirty sheets."

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