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Notable numbers: Trump voters, female lawmakers and abortion searches

Donald Trump addresses supporters in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Donald Trump addresses supporters in Spartanburg, South Carolina. AP

32 The percentage of Americans who were satisfied with the direction of the United States in 2015

34 The percentage who were very satisfied or somewhat satisfied about our system of government and how well it works in 2016

37 The percentage who were very satisfied or somewhat satisfied about the size and power of the federal government

8 The percentage rating the honesty and ethics of members of Congress as very high or high

119,000 The number of Internet searches in 2015 for the exact phrase “how to have a miscarriage”

700,000 The number of Google searches looking into any self-induced abortions in 2015

3.4 million The number of searches for abortion clinics

1 million The number of legal abortions in the United States each year

4,000 The number of searches looking for directions on coat hanger abortions

1 Where Mississippi ranks in the U.S. with the highest rate of Google searches for self-induced abortions

1 The number of abortion clinics in Mississippi

1/3 The proportion of South Carolinians who voted for Donald Trump who wish the South had won the Civil War

70 The percentage of those voters who think the Confederate flag should be flying over the state Capitol there

32 The percentage of those voters who believe internment of Japanese-American citizens was a good thing

4.5 The percentage of state lawmakers across the United States in 1971 who were women

22.4 The percentage in 2001 who were women

24.3 The percentage in 2015 who were women

60 The percentage of those women who are Democrats

40 The percentage who are Republicans

22 The percentage of N.C. lawmakers in 2015 who were women

41 The percentage of lawmakers in Colorado and Vermont who were women, the nation’s highest

40 The percentage of lawmakers in Washington in 2001 who were women

33 The percentage now who are women

24 The percentage of likely Democratic voters who said they could see themselves possibly voting for John Kasich in November

13 The percentage who said that about Marco Rubio

8 The percentage who said they could possibly vote for Donald Trump; that was also the same percentage for Ted Cruz

22 The percentage of likely Republican voters who said they could see themselves possibly voting for Bernie Sanders in November

11 The percentage who said that about Hillary Clinton

100,000 The number of uniformed U.N. peacekeepers deployed on 16 different missions

1 The percentage of those who are from North America

0.07 The percentage who are American

28 The percentage of the U.N. peace-keeping budget that the U.S. finances because expenses are based on the relative wealth of each country

This story was originally published March 11, 2016 at 2:54 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Trump voters, female lawmakers and abortion searches."

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