Yes Magazine has this really great feature called "The Page That Counts" and has interesting statistics like these:
Percentage of major media stories about the 2008 presidential elections that focused on political, financial, and tactical aspects of the campaign: 63 %
Percentage that focused on the personal backgrounds of candidates: 17 %
Percentage that focused on the ideas and policy proposals of candidates: 15 %
Percentage that focused on records and past public performance of candidates: 1 %
Source:“The Invisible Primary—Invisible No Longer,” Project for Excellence in Journalism, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, October 29, 2007. http://journalism.org/node/8187
Number of jobs created by spending $1 billion on defense: 8,555
Number of jobs created by spending $1 billion on health care: 10,779
Number of jobs created by spending $1 billion on education: 17,687
Number of jobs created by spending $1 billion on mass transit: 19,795
Source:“The U.S. Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending Priorities,” Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier, Dept of Economics and Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 2007.http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/071001-jobcreation.pdf
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