Follow the money. Who is making donations to fund these Presidential campaigners? And who has the bigger war chest? (N.B. the incumbent starts off with a huge advantage publicity wise, and has the advantage of running unopposed for his party's nomination)
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?id=N00008333
Gingrich:
Rock-Tenn Co $27,500
Poet LLC $20,000
First Fiscal Fund $15,000
Pull-A-Part Inc $15,000
Amway/Alticor Inc $10,000
State Mutual Insurance $10,000
American Fruits & Flavors $10,000
Streck Inc $10,000
Windway Capital $9,600
Wirco Inc $8,500
McKenna, Long & Aldridge $7,500
Blackstone Group $7,000
Richardson Properties $7,000
Wells Fargo $5,900
J Smith Lanier & Co $5,000
American Solutions PAC $5,000
Woody's Smokehouse $5,000
AFLAC Inc $5,000
American General Corp $5,000
Clark Consulting $5,000
Coded $1,195,932 (78%)
Uncoded $339,051 (22%)
Total $1,534,983
Romney
Goldman Sachs $367,200
Credit Suisse Group $203,750
Morgan Stanley $199,800
HIG Capital $186,500
Barclays $157,750
Kirkland & Ellis $132,100
Bank of America $126,500
PriceWaterhouseCoopers $118,250
EMC Corp $117,300
JPMorgan Chase & Co $112,250
The Villages $97,500
Vivint Inc $80,750
Marriott International $79,837
Sullivan & Cromwell $79,250
Bain Capital $74,500
UBS AG $73,750
Wells Fargo $61,500
Blackstone Group $59,800
Citigroup Inc $57,050
Bain & Co $52,500
Coded $20,882,176 (73%)
Uncoded $7,846,560 (27%)
Total $28,728,736
Paul
US Army $24,503
US Air Force $23,335
US Navy $17,432
Mason Capital Management $14,000
Microsoft Corp $13,398
Boeing Co $10,620
Google Inc $10,390
Overland Sheepskin $10,350
IBM Corp $8,294
US Government $7,756
DUNN Capital Management $7,500
Corriente Advisors $7,500
Greenstreet Co $7,500
Northrop Grumman $7,272
Lockheed Martin $7,208
Intel Corp $6,855
US Dept of Defense $6,524
United Technologies $6,316
Federal Express Corp $6,255
Entergy Corp $5,950
Coded $3,161,194 (65%)
Uncoded $1,711,511 (35%)
Total $4,872,705
Obama
Microsoft Corp $171,573
Comcast Corp $113,800
University of California $107,501
Harvard University $99,975
Google Inc $95,066
DLA Piper $75,375
Skadden, Arps et al $69,374
Chopper Trading $64,815
Stanford University $62,928
Time Warner $62,600
Ballard, Spahr et al $62,300
National Amusements Inc $62,100
Arnold & Porter $54,700
Goldman Sachs $50,124
Columbia University $49,347
Latham & Watkins $49,082
Exelon Corp $48,625
US Dept of State $48,077
Mayer Brown LLP $47,700
Sidley Austin LLP $44,825
Coded $33,027,129 (80%)
lUncoded $8,264,897 (20%)
Total $41,292,026
Romney is the banksters' choice.
Obama is the lawyers' choice.
Paul is the armed forces' choice.
Gingrich? Even the people choosing him, aren't backing him that heavily.
Mitt and Barack's funding dwarfs the other candidates.
Banksters Goldman Sachs* are backing BOTH the big, media favourite front runners! *Responsible in a significant part for the banking collapse / global recesion (read Matt Taibi's excellent Rolling Stone articles re. GS).
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?id=N00008333
Gingrich:
Rock-Tenn Co $27,500
Poet LLC $20,000
First Fiscal Fund $15,000
Pull-A-Part Inc $15,000
Amway/Alticor Inc $10,000
State Mutual Insurance $10,000
American Fruits & Flavors $10,000
Streck Inc $10,000
Windway Capital $9,600
Wirco Inc $8,500
McKenna, Long & Aldridge $7,500
Blackstone Group $7,000
Richardson Properties $7,000
Wells Fargo $5,900
J Smith Lanier & Co $5,000
American Solutions PAC $5,000
Woody's Smokehouse $5,000
AFLAC Inc $5,000
American General Corp $5,000
Clark Consulting $5,000
Coded $1,195,932 (78%)
Uncoded $339,051 (22%)
Total $1,534,983
Romney
Goldman Sachs $367,200
Credit Suisse Group $203,750
Morgan Stanley $199,800
HIG Capital $186,500
Barclays $157,750
Kirkland & Ellis $132,100
Bank of America $126,500
PriceWaterhouseCoopers $118,250
EMC Corp $117,300
JPMorgan Chase & Co $112,250
The Villages $97,500
Vivint Inc $80,750
Marriott International $79,837
Sullivan & Cromwell $79,250
Bain Capital $74,500
UBS AG $73,750
Wells Fargo $61,500
Blackstone Group $59,800
Citigroup Inc $57,050
Bain & Co $52,500
Coded $20,882,176 (73%)
Uncoded $7,846,560 (27%)
Total $28,728,736
Paul
US Army $24,503
US Air Force $23,335
US Navy $17,432
Mason Capital Management $14,000
Microsoft Corp $13,398
Boeing Co $10,620
Google Inc $10,390
Overland Sheepskin $10,350
IBM Corp $8,294
US Government $7,756
DUNN Capital Management $7,500
Corriente Advisors $7,500
Greenstreet Co $7,500
Northrop Grumman $7,272
Lockheed Martin $7,208
Intel Corp $6,855
US Dept of Defense $6,524
United Technologies $6,316
Federal Express Corp $6,255
Entergy Corp $5,950
Coded $3,161,194 (65%)
Uncoded $1,711,511 (35%)
Total $4,872,705
Obama
Microsoft Corp $171,573
Comcast Corp $113,800
University of California $107,501
Harvard University $99,975
Google Inc $95,066
DLA Piper $75,375
Skadden, Arps et al $69,374
Chopper Trading $64,815
Stanford University $62,928
Time Warner $62,600
Ballard, Spahr et al $62,300
National Amusements Inc $62,100
Arnold & Porter $54,700
Goldman Sachs $50,124
Columbia University $49,347
Latham & Watkins $49,082
Exelon Corp $48,625
US Dept of State $48,077
Mayer Brown LLP $47,700
Sidley Austin LLP $44,825
Coded $33,027,129 (80%)
lUncoded $8,264,897 (20%)
Total $41,292,026
Romney is the banksters' choice.
Obama is the lawyers' choice.
Paul is the armed forces' choice.
Gingrich? Even the people choosing him, aren't backing him that heavily.
Mitt and Barack's funding dwarfs the other candidates.
Banksters Goldman Sachs* are backing BOTH the big, media favourite front runners! *Responsible in a significant part for the banking collapse / global recesion (read Matt Taibi's excellent Rolling Stone articles re. GS).
