Numbers

By Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Andrew Goldstein, Tam Gray, Lina Lofaro, Desa Philadelphia and Chris Taylor

$4.8 million Total funds raised by Elizabeth Dole before she bowed out of the presidential race last week

$1.8 million Total amount Abraham Lincoln spent on his 1860 election campaign, in 1999 dollars

4 Number of years that a campaign-finance reform bill has been defeated in the Senate without a full debate

$700 Total assets listed by former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss when she declared bankruptcy last week--$200 in clothes, $500 in jewelry

$1,600 How much Fleiss originally paid for her four little black books--made by Gucci and seized by the FBI

$5 million How much Fleiss was reportedly offered, and turned down, for a tell-all

$5.5 million Amount Food Lion first won in damages from ABC over its hidden-camera expose

$2 Amount of those punitive damages ABC has to pay, $1 each for two reporters' "breach of loyalty" to Food Lion

Sources: USA Today, Congressional Quarterly, AP, Reuters, Fleiss interview in Playboy, PEOPLE, AP