The Daily Rundown: Obama Superpac is catching up with Romney's.

Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos has donated a substantial amount of money.

‘Super PACs’ Finally a Draw for Democrats
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
Published: September 26, 2012

James Simons, a Long Island investor and philanthropist, has not given a cent to President Obama’s re-election campaign this year.

But Mr. Simons has given at least $2 million to Priorities USA Action, the “super PAC” aiding Mr. Obama, and $2 million more to two allied groups supporting Democrats in Congress, making him the biggest Democratic super PAC donor in the country.

With the election just weeks away — and millions of dollars in advertising time booked but not yet paid for — Democratic super PACs are finally drawing the kind of wealthy donors who have already made Republican outside groups a pivotal force in the 2012 campaign.

More than 40 individuals and couples had given at least $250,000 to the leading Democratic super PACs through the beginning of September, according to a New York Times analysis of campaign finance records, and dozens more have given $100,000 or more.

But the money is not coming from the expected places. Few of the wealthiest men and women closest to Mr. Obama have donated, even as the super PAC backing Mitt Romney raises millions of dollars from his friends and former colleagues. Only a few gay donors are among the biggest givers, despite Mr. Obama’s embrace of same-sex marriage last spring. Most of the wealthy liberals who financed the party’s last major outside spending effort, in 2004, remain on the super PAC sidelines.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/us/politics/super-pacs-finally-a-draw-for-democrats.html?pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www