Who knew Mitt Romney's number—that infamous 47 percent—would turn out to be a conservative estimate?

A new Pew Research Center poll reveals a majority of us have received benefits from the "six best-known federal entitlement programs." And the numbers actually break pretty close to even along party lines with 59 percent of Obama voters and 53 percent of Romney supporters collecting government benefits, according to the study.

By the way, the programs we're talking about here are, of course:

• Social Security
• Medicare
• Medicaid
• Food stamps
• Welfare
• Unemployment

Specifically, we're talking about 55 percent of Americans who have received at least one of the benefits, with another 16 percent who knows someone in their household who has. So more than 70 percent of us have been touched by federal benefits, entitlements or whatever you want to call them.