more than 85% of PAC contributions in recent elections have gone to incumbents
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The list of incumbents that won reelection between 1945 and 1990 include Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan. The next to win reelection was Bill Clinton who served from 1993 until 2001.
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The US Army had 38,179 killed in the war or 65 percent of all fatalities. The US Navy had 2,556 killed or 4.5 percent of all fatatities. The US Marines had 14,836 killed or 25.6 percent of all fatalities. The US Air Force had 2,580 killed or 4.4 percent of all fatalities, and lost less than one percent of all Air Force personnel, compared to Marine Corps losses of five men for every 100 who served in the Vietnamese War.
At the time of the 2006 Census, 43 per cent of all Australians were born overseas or have at least one parent who was born overseas. Of those born overseas, the United Kingdom is the largest overseas-born group (23.5 percent), followed by New Zealand (8.8 percent), China (excluding SARs and Taiwan Province) (4.7 percent) and Italy (4.5 percent).
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3835The List: The World's Fastest-Growing Religions Growth rates over the period from 2000 to 2005; all figures from the nondenominational World Christian Database, a project of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Islam Growth rate*: 1.84 percent Adherents: 1.3 billion The Bahai Faith Growth rate: 1.70 percent Adherents: 7.7 million SikhismGrowth rate: 1.62 percent Adherents: 25.8 million Jainism Growth rate: 1.57 percent Adherents:5.9 million Hinduism Growth rate: 1.52 percent Adherents: 870 million Christianity Growth rate: 1.38 percent Adherents: 2.2 billion