4,600 February 1, 2021 The estimated number of Colorado Republicans that changed their political party status in the week following the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. After the insurrection at the Capitol, thousands of Republicans across the nation have defected from the Republican party by switching to unaffiliated statuses, other conservative groups or, in rare cases, to the Democratic party. (NPR — Feb. 1, 2021) The number of acceptance emails that the University of Kentucky accidentally sent out to high school seniors for a program that usually only accepts about 36 students per year. Some of the students who received the acceptance letter claimed to have never applied to, visited or went onto the website for the university. The university apologized for the mistake and said it was due to a “technical issue.”