The principal owners of the professional sports teams in the four major North American leagues skew heavily conservative, with contributions to Republican campaigns, candidates and Super Pacs exceeding donations to Democratic efforts nearly tenfold according to Federal Election Commission records.
And with demand for heart transplants far exceeding donations, patients can wait for years for a donor heart, while others may be ineligible altogether because of other health issues.
The trend in conservative support across team owners is notably reversed in the race for president, where contributions to the Clinton campaign robustly exceeded donations to Trump.
The outside expenditures in this race exceed donations directly to the candidates by nearly 9 to 1.
A January report by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, which surveyed 25 cities, indicated that the demand for emergency food in the nation's urban centers exceeds donations by an average of 17%.
Mrs. Clinton may also be able to negotiate down some of her debts, but campaign finance rules that limit her ability to do so to prevent vendors from being able to provide gifts to candidates that exceed donation limits.
The Senate is currently considering Egan's nomination for U.S. ambassador to Ireland, but the Federal Election Commission is reportedly investigating whether Egan threw too much money at the Republican party and exceeded donation limits.
Private-sector donations exceed government donations in the AIDS effort, said Hank McKinnell, the chief executive of Pfizer, who moderated the session.
Such supporters can write checks again and again without exceeding federal donation limits, and Mrs. Bachmann, a Tea Party favorite, is expected to expand that base by tapping the organizational lists of such groups as Americans for Prosperity and its state affiliates.
Foundation President Paul Murray noted it was a record amount for the organization, exceeding the donation for the previous school year by $900,000.
Before such a comparison is performed, it is necessary to look at the development of unrelated adult stem cell donation, which has shown an equally impressive growth in the past decade: By the end of 2009, more than 16 million donors have been registered worldwide, with an annual rate of donations exceeding 11,000 and almost 90,000 donations having been performed since 1997.
