Number of the Day

26: The percentage [note: video begins to play automatically at link] "of Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll [who] say they're optimistic about 'our system of government and how well it works,' down 7 points since October to the fewest in surveys dating to 1974. Almost as many, 23 percent, are pessimistic, the closest these measures ever have come. The rest, a record high, are 'uncertain' about the system."

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