On Jan. 20, 2001, George W. Bush was inaugurated president of a country from another world – the place that existed before 9/11, before the Iraq war, before Katrina, before the iPod. A year from today, a new president will take office. How different was Jan. 20, 2001, from Jan 20, 2008? Rather a lot. 

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Favorable view of the United States

Source: Pew Research Center

Where the public learns something about the president campaign

Source: Pew Research Center

U.S. population

Source: U.S. Census bureau

Americans stressed by 9/11 more prone to heart disease

Source: Archives of General Psychiatry and the New York Times

Which groups have high knowledge of current affairs?

Source: Pew Research Center

Nuclear reactors

Source: Nuclear Energy Institute

Americans and prayer

Source: Pew Research Center

Apple Stock

Source: Yahoo Finance

GM Stock

Source: Yahoo Finance

Sales of Toyota Prius hybrid and Ford Explorer

Sources: Toyota, toyoland.com, autosavant.net

Airline passenger baggage complaints

Source: U.S. Department of Transportation

World cancer deaths

Source: World Health Organization

Americans who have high-speed Internet

Source: Pew Research Center

Ounce of gold

Source: www.onlygold.com

Military deaths

Source: Statistical Information Analysis Division, U.S. Department of Defense

Minimum wage

Source: www.labormarketinfo.com (Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation Labor Market Statistics)

Baseball salaries

Source: AP

Rays record

Source: Times baseball writer Marc Topkin

Deadliest Days on American Soil

Sources: Times files, news accounts, Web sites devoted to each event

Florida cardiovascular deaths

Source: Florida Department of Health

Hispanic population of America

Source: U.S. Census bureau

Total votes in New Hampshire primary

Source: New Hampshire Secretary of State

Chief justices of the U.S. Supreme Court

Sources: Oyez.org, whitehouse.gov

Leading automaker

Source: Associated Press

Florida skin cancer deaths

Source: Florida Department of Health

Number of iPods

Source: Apple, news reports

The Dow

Source: Yahoo Finance

Florida population

2008 Florida population -- 19,051,540 FY 2007-2008. Source: Office of Economic and Demographic Research, the Florida Legislature, http://edr.state.fl.us/population.htm

2000 Florida population -- 15,982,824 University of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research (derived from the Census)

Cell phones

Source: CTIA, the wireless association

Petroleum use

Source: Energy Information Administration, Dept of Energy

Barrel of crude

January 2001 -- $23.18

Week of Jan. 11, 2008 -- $92.82

Source for both is Energy Information Administration (U.S. Department of Energy)

Catholic views on women and traditional roles

Source: Pew Research Center

Americans leaning Democratic or Republican

Source: Pew Research Center

Federal budget

Source: U.S. government, news reports

Heart attack victim's wait to see doctor in ER

8 minutes in 1997

20 minutes in 2004

Source: Cambridge Health Alliance, study published on-line on Jan. 15, 2008, http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.27.2.w84

Approval ratings for President Bush

Source: Pew Research Center

Americans' satisfaction with nation's direction

Source: Pew Research Center

Are blacks better off?

Source: Pew Research Center

Median price of Tampa Bay area existing single-family home

Source: Florida Association of Realtors

Nobel Peace Prize citations

Source: NobelPrize.org

Mentions of Osama bin Laden in major American newspapers

Source: Lexis-Nexis

Gallon of gas

Source: Energy Information Administration, Dept of Energy

http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/wrgp/mogas_home_page.html

Immigrants obtaining legal status

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/yearbook/2006/OIS_2006_Yearbook.pdf

Americans 85 or older

Source: Statistical Abstracts of the United States

University of Florida in-state undergraduate tuition and fees

Source: University of Florida

http://www.ir.ufl.edu/factbook/vi-04_hist.pdf

Steroids and baseball

Source:  Lexis-Nexis

Consumer debt

Source: Federal Reserve

http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g19/hist/cc_hist_sa.html

Petroleum use

Source: Energy Information Administration, Dept of Energy

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/RecentPetroleumConsumptionBarrelsperDay.xls

Americans below poverty level

Source: Census

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/histpov/hstpov2.html

Median household income

Source: Census

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/MYPTable?_bm=y&-qr_name=ACS_2002_EST_G00_MYP13_1&-geo_id=01000US&-ds_name=&-_lang=en

Greenback vs. loonie

Source: OANDA.com

http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic

National debt

Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np