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:	post by ShadowSD at 2012-10-25 15:42:20

Why the election makes a huge difference even if you're a major cynic:

68.4 percent of Obama's money has come from donors giving $999 or less in the 2012 campaign.

36.2 percent of Romney's money has come from donors giving $999 or less in the 2012 campaign.

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/09/30/4864698/s...mall-donors-dollars-add-up-for.html

Top Romney Contributors
Goldman Sachs $965,140
Bank of America $844,734
Morgan Stanley $768,216
JPMorgan Chase & Co $749,918
Credit Suisse Group $588,841
Wells Fargo $524,601
Deloitte LLP $477,812
Kirkland & Ellis $470,672
Citigroup Inc $448,408
Barclays $426,800
PricewaterhouseCoopers $386,835
UBS AG $363,160
HIG Capital $362,500
Blackstone Group $354,725
Elliott Management $281,925
EMC Corp $278,450
Bain Capital $277,970
Rothman Institute $263,700
Ernst & Young $254,875
General Electric $247,270

The first financial CEO who would ever be President wants to be elected on mostly financial sector money just a few years after financial CEOs crashed the economy.

It's one thing for banks and other big businesses to be on a donors list; they always donate to both Presidential candidates, like JP Morgan this year for instance, but the one-sided domination of Romney's list by Wall Street is just unprecedented.

If the last few years have been about populist uprisings on the left, right, and center against big finance, the joke sure was on all of us if this guy is even being considered.

Top Obama Contributors
University of California $927,568
Microsoft Corp $680,769
Google Inc $661,996
Harvard University $535,405
US Government $528,603
Kaiser Permanente $426,407
Stanford University $414,266
Deloitte LLP $400,034
DLA Piper $388,877
Time Warner $362,012
Columbia University $347,092
Sidley Austin LLP $345,404
Comcast Corp $304,549
University of Chicago $289,346
IBM Corp $280,089
US Dept of State $267,179
University of Michigan $254,822
Skadden, Arps et al $250,186
Wells Fargo $246,155
JPMorgan Chase & Co $235,635

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?id=N00000286
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?id=N00009638

Is wealth mostly created in our society by creativity and hard work in technology and research, or just by trading back and forth existing money without actually doing anything?

Which group of companies has had too much power, and certainly doesn't deserve an extra golden parachute with the Presidency attached? Seems like a no-brainer to me.