Mitt Romney by the numbers

For years, Mitt Romney has been telling Americans "I love data." As he bragged to the Wall Street Journal:

"I used to call it 'wallowing in the data.' Let me see the data. I want to see the client's data, the competitors' data. I want to see all the data."

But the man who would be America's 45th president doesn't want voters to see any of his. In early 2007, the Massachusetts governor's aides scrubbed his administration's computer records as he was heading out the door in Boston. Determined to avoid becoming the poster boy for gaming the IRS, Romney's tax returns remain a mystery because, as he put it, "I don't put out which tooth paste I use either." As for own tax plan, Romney boasts that "it can't be scored" because the "details will have to be worked out with Congress." As for which tax breaks he would end to offset the $5 trillion in revenue his tax cut scheme would drain from the U.S. Treasury, Mitt Romney won't name a single one in public. Otherwise, he told the Wall Street Journal last year, "you're gonna get hit by the demagogues in the general election."

But what Mitt Romney calls demagogues, most Americans call "voters." And despite Romney's perpetual--and perpetually cynical--efforts to keep his data secret, on the eve of the 2012 election there are some things we do know. Here, then, is Mitt Romney by the numbers.

$45,000,000.  How much of his own money Mitt Romney spent during his failed 2008 bid for the White House, prompting son Matt to declare, "I don't ever expect to see any of that anyways."

$80,000,000.  Estimated amount the Romney heirs will inherit if their father becomes president and succeeds in eliminating the estate tax.

$100,000,000.  Estimated value of Romney's tax-free trust fund for his five sons.

$10,000,000.  Amount the Romneys' blind trust invested in son Tagg's private equity firm, Solamere Capital, supporting Mitt's advice to college students to "borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business."

0. Number of Ann and Mitt Romney's five sons who served in the military, men their father said in 2007 instead "are showing support for our nation [by] helping me get elected because they think I'd be a great president."

5.5.  Number of years Mitt Romney received deferments from military service in Vietnam to pursue his college studies and church mission in France.

1963.  The year Mitt Romney's "dear, close relative" Ann Keenan died as the result of an illegal abortion, prompting Mitt in 1994 to declare his "unwavering" support for Roe v. Wade.

0. The number of exceptions to the abortion ban called for by the so-called Human Life Amendment endorsed by the 2012 Republican Platform and state "personhood" initiatives Romney supports.

3. The number of Tagg Romney's children resulting from in vitro fertilization, a procedure which would likely be illegal under state "personhood" initiatives his father supports.

$150. Value of the check Ann Romney wrote to Planned Parenthood during a 1994 fundraiser she and her husband attended, which when publicly revealed in 2007 led GOP White House hopeful Mitt Romney to claim "her positions are not terribly relevant for my campaign."

$0.  Amount of federal funding President Romney would provide to Planned Parenthood and the entire Title X program for women's health.

72,000,000.  Estimated number of people in America without health insurance if President Romney succeeds in repealing Obamacare and cutting Medicaid spending by over a third and giving what remains as block grants to the states.

2.  Percentage of Massachusetts residents without health insurance.

27.  Percentage of Texas residents without health insurance.

6,000,000. Number of senior citizens who rely on Medicaid to help pay for nursing home care.

$2,200.  According to the CBO, the average increase per year for seniors under the Romney-Ryan Medicare voucher plan by 2030.

$4.1 billion.  Total amount saved by 5.4 million American seniors as a result of Obamacare's closing of the Medicare prescription drug "donut hole," which would be reopened by Mitt Romney.

$716 billion.  Ten-year amount Mitt Romney wrongly says President Obama "raided from Medicare," funds actually used to help expand benefits and extend life of the program's Trust Fund.

$716 billion.  Ten-year amount taken from Medicare by Paul Ryan's House GOP budget to help fund a new tax cut windfall for the wealthy.

98. Percentage of House Republicans and GOP senators who voted for the Ryan budget.

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