Notable Numbers

Statistics from the presidential campaign that deserve a doubletake2,715,039 Number of registered Democrats in North Carolina

2,067,392 Number of registered Republicans in North Carolina

2,050,663 Number of registered unaffiliated voters in North Carolina

31,747 Number of Libertarians registered in North Carolina

63 Percentage of voters who turned out in 1960 presidential race

53.6 Percentage who turned out in 2012 race

$72,000 Amount John F. Kennedy’s campaign had spent on ads in Wisconsin when opponent Hubert Humphrey criticized Kennedy as having a campaign that was “the most highly financed, most plush, the most extravagant in the history of politics”

34,220,984 Votes for John F. Kennedy in 1960

34,108,157 Votes for Richard M. Nixon in 1960

65,915,795 Votes for Barack Obama in 2012

60,933,504 Votes for Mitt Romney in 2012

8 Number of Democratic candidates in that 1960 race when it started

3 Number of Republican candidates

$20 million Amount that Paloma Partners contributed to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton according to OpenSecrets.org

$6 million Amount contributed by Slim Fast Foods to the Clinton campaign

$2 million Amount contributed by DreamWorks SKG to the Clinton campaign

$20 million Donald Trump’s last personal contribution to his campaign

$1.3 billion Amount raised by the Clinton campaign (and counting), according to the Washington Post

$795 million Amount raised by the Trump campaign (and counting)

$62 million Cash on hand in Clinton campaign two weeks out from the election

$16 million Cash on hand in Trump campaign two weeks out from the election (more coming from candidate)

14 Hillary Clinton’s percentage point lead in one poll after the third presidential debate

1 Her lead after more disclosures about her emails

5 Thomas Dewey’s percentage lead in the last pre-election Gallup Poll in 1948

This story was originally published November 4, 2016 at 7:06 PM with the headline "Notable Numbers."