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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTop Contributors, 2008 Cycle (Obama)
https://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cid=N00009638"SNIP..........
Because of contribution limits, organizations that bundle together many individual contributions are often among the top donors to presidential candidates. These contributions can come from the organization's members or employees (and their families). The organization may support one candidate, or hedge its bets by supporting multiple candidates. Groups with national networks of donors - like EMILY's List and Club for Growth - make for particularly big bundlers.
University of California $1,799,460
Goldman Sachs $1,034,615
Harvard University $900,909
Microsoft Corp $854,717
JPMorgan Chase & Co $847,895
Google Inc $817,855
Citigroup Inc $755,057
US Government $638,335
Time Warner $617,844
Sidley Austin LLP $606,260
Stanford University $603,866
National Amusements Inc $579,098
Columbia University $570,839
Skadden, Arps et al $554,439
WilmerHale Llp $554,373
US Dept of Justice $540,636
IBM Corp $534,470
UBS AG $534,166
General Electric $532,031
Morgan Stanley $528,182
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Top Contributors, 2008 Cycle (Obama) (Original Post)
applegrove
Feb 2016
OP
She isn't alone, and when people post the stats they usually leave out the title category.
Agschmid
Feb 2016
#4
America can't tolerate another President who refuses to prosecute Wall Street criminals
Dems to Win
Feb 2016
#6
applegrove
(118,685 posts)1. Hillary is not alone with support from the financial industries.
Red Oak
(697 posts)5. Think that's why no bankers are in jail right now?
Kind of proves Bernie's point, don't you think?
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)7. Bernie has been in congress the whole time...
Still no bankers in jail.
So?
Fearless
(18,421 posts)8. I was unaware that one in 100 congresspersons could just throw people in jail.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)9. I was unaware anyone could just "throw people in jail"...
I sure hope no one can do that, sort of seems un American.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)2. Your point?
applegrove
(118,685 posts)3. She's not alone in having a relationship with all kinds of Americans.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)4. She isn't alone, and when people post the stats they usually leave out the title category.
Dems to Win
(2,161 posts)6. America can't tolerate another President who refuses to prosecute Wall Street criminals
It seems reasonable to assume those Wall Street contributions prevented President Obama from taking aggressive action to hold people accountable for crashing the economy and stealing millions of homes from Americans via mortgage fraud.
I also think those corporate contributions led President Obama to kill the public option from the ACA.
Bernie's campaign financing, avg $27 contributions from ordinary people, is EVERYTHING.