And there is the answer I was looking for from Dark Sage, much of the men were knocked off at the end of the Bush year, leaving for many women to fall off during the Obama Administration. However since this is a election year, rhetoric is often skewed, and because Obama was lucky ( or unlucky ) to be elected in 2009 and not 2008, the RNC and Romney have every right to start the number at 2009. But like I said this is a election year, and all is fair and love and war and all that.