Alberto Acosta – Correa's former right-hand man, author of the constitution and a rival in the recent presidential election – estimates the nation's debt to Beijing at $17bn.
Over here, the Tories wanted to introduce "left on red" in their manifesto for the 2001 general election, estimating that it would substantially cut the UK's £20bn a year congestion bill and reduce pollution (all those idling engines).
A University of Essex study based on polling after the last general election estimates that if AV rules had applied last year, the Conservatives would have gained 283 Commons seats (down 22 from their actual 305), Labour 248 (down 10) and the Liberal Democrats 89 (up 32).
Several hundred British candidates ran in the local elections, estimates Sue Collard, a British academic studying the matter, who was herself elected.
Chris Bowers posted a two-part series this week that compares the final estimate accuracy of his simple poll averaging ("simple mean of all non-campaign funded, telephone polls that were conducted entirely within the final eight days of a campaign") to the final pre-election estimates provided by this site and Fivethirtyeight.com.
"Our preliminary research on the election tracking," Newport said, "suggests that this did not have a significant impact on our election estimates".
Charles Stewart, the director of the MIT election lab and an expert on election administration, estimated that up to 1 million adults have become naturalized in Texas since 1996.
Continuing the trend of ever-increasing campaign spending in the country, the U.S. presidential election was estimated to have cost about $6 billion, making it the most expensive election to date.
Each election is estimated to cost at least $100 million, and international donors do not want to pay for two elections.
In 2000, a few hundred votes decided the election; an estimated 60,000 Muslims in Florida voted for Bush.
