Presidential Financial Contributions: Obama vs Romney

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2012 Presidential Race | OpenSecrets

Barack Obama (D)
1 University of California $491,868
2 Microsoft Corp $443,748
3 Google Inc $357,382
4 DLA Piper $331,715
5 Harvard University $317,516

Individual contributions $347,909,254
PAC contributions $0

Mitt Romney (R)
1 Goldman Sachs $676,080
2 JPMorgan Chase & Co $520,299
3 Morgan Stanley $513,647
4 Bank of America $510,728
5 Credit Suisse Group $427,560

Individual contributions $192,355,237
PAC contributions $838,481

NOTE: The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organizations' PACs, their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.

 

[FAH1223]

2012 Presidential Race | OpenSecrets

where's the wall street folks for Obama

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

where's the wall street folks for Obama

They were there last election....they backed off after that whole "regulate Wall Street" dialect.

 

[Megatron Island]

From 2008:
Obama:

University of California $1,648,685
Goldman Sachs $1,013,091
Harvard University $878,164
Microsoft Corp $852,167
Google Inc $814,540
JPMorgan Chase & Co $808,799
Citigroup Inc $736,771
Time Warner $624,618
Sidley Austin LLP $600,298
Stanford University $595,716
National Amusements Inc $563,798
WilmerHale LLP $550,668
Columbia University $547,852
Skadden, Arps et al $543,539
UBS AG $532,674
IBM Corp $532,372
General Electric $529,855
US Government $513,308
Morgan Stanley $512,232
Latham & Watkins

McCain:

Merrill Lynch $375,895
JPMorgan Chase & Co $343,505
Citigroup Inc $338,202
Morgan Stanley $271,902
Goldman Sachs $240,295
US Government $202,929
AT&T Inc $201,938
Wachovia Corp $199,663
UBS AG $187,493
Credit Suisse Group $184,153
PricewaterhouseCoopers $169,400
US Army $169,020
Bank of America $167,826
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $160,346
Blank Rome LLP $155,226
Greenberg Traurig LLP $147,437
US Dept of Defense $146,356
FedEx Corp $131,974
Lehman Brothers $126,557
Ernst & Young $114,506

 

[MBwithadream]

how the hell does a university give out money to politicals?

 

[Good Guy Guevara]

how the hell does a university give out money to politicals?

The employees breh.

 

[Shugg84]

I feel a W for Obama cumming this Nov.