Politicians will tell you just about anything they think you want to hear. As both Democrats and Republicans prefer to choose sides in a Cuban family soap opera rather than debate real issues, we call on the numbers once again for the real political story. 1. Ratio of searches on Lycos (LCOS) search engine for "George Bush" to those for the TV show Days of Our Lives, week ending April 22 – 1 to 1
2. Ratio of searches on Lycos for "Al Gore" to those for the TV show Rugrats, week ending April 22 – 1 to 1
3. Ratio of searches on Lycos for "Pat Buchanan" to those for the TV show All in the Family, week ending April 22 – 1 to 1
4. Period of time between the launch of the GWBush.com parody site and a letter of complaint about the site sent by Bush campaign to the FEC – 1 month
5. Period of time it took the FEC to reject the Bush campaign's complaint – 11 months
6. Months that the U.S. Supreme Court has had its own Web site – 1
7. Months that the Mongolian Supreme Court has had its own Web site – 24
8. Date the George W. Bush Web site issued a statement criticizing the Elian Gonzalez raid on April 22 – April 22
9. Number of days it took the Al Gore Web site to issue any statement on the Elian Gonzalez raid – still counting
10. Date the AlGore2000 Web site issued Gore's pledge of support for April 22's Earth Day – April 22
11. Number of days it took the George W. Bush Web site to issue any statement in support of Earth Day – still counting
12. As of this afternoon, the number of signatures for PetitionOnline's "Send Elian Home" e-mail petition to President Clinton – 19,277
13. Number of e-mail messages sent to President Clinton from LibertyforElian, a Web site trying to keep Elian Gonzalez in the U.S. – more than 50,000
14. Campaign contributions to Al Gore from dot-com workers, according to the FEC's contributor occupation break-out in March – $9500
15. Campaign contributions to George W Bush from dot-com workers, according to the FEC's contributor occupation break-out in March – $11,250
SOURCES
1. Lycos
2. Lycos
3. Lycos
4. Early April to May 4 1999: RTMark.com, GWBush.com
5. April 18: Washington Post
6. Center for Democracy and Technology
7. Center for Democracy and Technology
8. Georgewbush.com
9. Algore2000.com
10. Algore2000.com
11. Georgewbush.com
12. PetitionOnline.com
13. LibertyforElian.org
14. FECInfo.com
15. FECInfo.com
