Day272 Saturday 05/28/11

ran 3.4 miles
Some stats and facts about the state of New York:

• New York was the eleventh state to join the union on July 26, 1788, one year before North Carolina and one month after Virginia.

• Population, as of 2010, is 19,378,102.

• Senators are Kirsten Gillibrand (D) and Charles Schumer (D).

• Representatives are Timothy Bishop (D), Steve Israel (D), Peter King (R), Carolyn McCarthy (D), Gary Ackerman (D), Gregory Meeks (D), Joseph Crowley (D), Jerrold Nadler (D), Anthony Weiner (D), Edolphus Towns (D), Yvette Clarke (D), Nydia Velazquez (D), Michael Grimm (R), Carolyn Maloney (D), Charles Rangel (D), Jose Serrano (D), Eliot Engel (D), Nita Lowey (D), Nan Hayworth (R), Chris Gibson (R), Paul Tonko (D), Maurice Hinchey (D), William Owens (D), Richard Hanna (R), Ann Marie Buerkle (R), Brian Higgins (D), Louise Slaughter (D) and Tom Reed (R).

• New York has twenty-nine electoral votes. After the 2010 Census Reapportionment, the state lost two of its electoral votes 2020. Historically, New York has been primarily a “blue” state since the Great Depression. Obama defeated McCain by 27% in 2008.

President Obama is scheduled to return tonight and to begin taking stock of the many events he missed on our own soil for the past week. I feel better already.

1,284.9 miles to go.