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Top 10 US political donors

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Friday, October 19, 2012 10:19 AM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20008689

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Friday, October 19, 2012 12:29 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Ouch. Of course the Big Guys on the right are funding that tax break, and of course Romney/Ryan would love to give it to 'em! Thank gawd for all the REAL AMERICANS who're contributing $5, $10, and so forth to Obama, or he wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell!!!

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Saturday, October 20, 2012 3:48 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

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Originally posted by Niki2:
Ouch. Of course the Big Guys on the right are funding that tax break, and of course Romney/Ryan would love to give it to 'em! Thank gawd for all the REAL AMERICANS who're contributing $5, $10, and so forth to Obama, or he wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell!!!

Yep. Obama has only raised about $135 million more than Romney ($432 million to $279), getting about $273 million from large contributors as opposed to Romney's $213 million. So Obama gets about as much from large contributors as Romney does overall. Gotta love those REAL AMERICANS with fat wallets.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/index.php?ql3

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Saturday, October 20, 2012 4:29 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

So let's do the math:

Obama raised 432M of which 273M came from large donors, leaving 159M or 37% coming from real Americans.
Romney raised 279M of which 213M came from large donors, leaving 66M or 24% coming from real Americans.

Meanwhile

http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/campaign-finance

Obama
campaign 435.9M
DNC 223.3M
PAC 35.4M
= 694.6M with 5.1% from PAC money, raised mostly from unions and public organizations, and 39.1% from large donors.

Romney
campaign 260.9M
RNC 323.1
PAC 111.5
= 695.5 with 16.0% from PAC money, raised mostly from EXTREMELY wealthy donors and 30.6% from large donors.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/indexp_indiv.php?id=N00009638&cy
cle=2012

I think I see a pattern here.

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Sunday, October 21, 2012 3:29 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:
So let's do the math:

Obama raised 432M of which 273M came from large donors, leaving 159M or 37% coming from real Americans.
Romney raised 279M of which 213M came from large donors, leaving 66M or 24% coming from real Americans.

Of course, with the maximum individual donation limited to $2500, lots of people can be "large" donors. Looks like in your world, the middle class aren't "real Americans".

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Meanwhile

http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/campaign-finance

Obama
campaign 435.9M
DNC 223.3M
PAC 35.4M
= 694.6M with 5.1% from PAC money, raised mostly from unions and public organizations, and 39.1% from large donors.

Romney
campaign 260.9M
RNC 323.1
PAC 111.5
= 695.5 with 16.0% from PAC money, raised mostly from EXTREMELY wealthy donors and 30.6% from large donors.

The link doesn't show this data.

I does show that of the money contributed to Super PACs, 49% of the contributions for Democratic PACS are of $1 million or more, while for the Repubs it's 32%. So there's apparently a lot of fat cats out there feeding the Democrat's coffers.

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Sunday, October 21, 2012 7:53 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

GO TO THE SECOND LINK

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Sunday, October 21, 2012 8:10 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

I know I can't pay enough to get Obama out of office, but that doesn't stop me from trying.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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