Top Presidential Donors

[Irish Stout]

www.opensecrets.org provides an insight to the companies donating to PACs for specific candidates.

Barrack Obama:

Microsoft Corp $418,845
University of California $411,386
Dla Piper $314,977
Google Inc $303,225
Harvard University $276,824
Sidley Austin LLP $269,681
US Government $256,099
Comcast Corp $216,156
Stanford University $212,850
Time Warner $191,834
Skadden, Arps et al $181,253
Kaiser Permanente $174,692
US Dept of State $164,617
Columbia University $163,148
National Amusements Inc $154,517
Wells Fargo $147,707
University of Chicago $145,307
Morgan & Morgan $140,395
IBM Corp $131,161
Jones Day $127,756

Coded $100,573,803 (74%)
Uncoded $35,574,426 (26%)
Total $136,148,229


Mitt Romney:


Goldman Sachs $636,080
JPMorgan Chase & Co $502,874
Morgan Stanley $476,300
Bank of America $465,850
Credit Suisse Group $421,310
Citigroup Inc $345,265
Barclays $322,400
Kirkland & Ellis $295,042
Wells Fargo $276,700
Deloitte LLP $250,510
PricewaterhouseCoopers $246,700
UBS AG $240,000
HIG Capital $219,495
Blackstone Group $213,800
Bain Capital $164,000
Elliott Management $162,825
General Electric $150,000
Marriott International $137,827
Bain & Co $137,300
Ernst & Young $134,425

Coded $84,083,711 (68%)
Uncoded $39,651,102 (32%)
Total $123,734,813

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

Interesting to see guys like Goldman Sachs and BOA at the top of the list for Romney. Also interesting is that the US Gov and Department of State have donations going to Obama... I can only assume its from individuals associated with them.

[Obushma]

Hmmm, Goldman Sachs was a top donor for Obama in 08. Guess they want to put their money behind a new mask.

[Rohirrim]

Looks like the banksters are terrified of what a second term Obama might try to do. Probably try and reinstate Glass-Steagle, or something radical like that.

[barryr]

Barrack Obama:

Microsoft Corp $418,845
University of California $411,386
Dla Piper $314,977
Google Inc $303,225
Harvard University $276,824
Sidley Austin LLP $269,681
US Government $256,099
Comcast Corp $216,156
Stanford University $212,850
Time Warner $191,834
Skadden, Arps et al $181,253
Kaiser Permanente $174,692
US Dept of State $164,617
Columbia University $163,148
National Amusements Inc $154,517
Wells Fargo $147,707
University of Chicago $145,307
Morgan & Morgan $140,395
IBM Corp $131,161
Jones Day $127,756

Nice to see our universities and colleges with that kind of money to throw to Obama. Hollywood backs a liberal/socialist democrat. How surprising. I see banks as well, but those are the "good" banks I'm sure.

[cutthemdown]

Barrack Obama:

Microsoft Corp $418,845
University of California $411,386
Dla Piper $314,977
Google Inc $303,225
Harvard University $276,824
Sidley Austin LLP $269,681
US Government $256,099
Comcast Corp $216,156
Stanford University $212,850
Time Warner $191,834
Skadden, Arps et al $181,253
Kaiser Permanente $174,692
US Dept of State $164,617
Columbia University $163,148
National Amusements Inc $154,517
Wells Fargo $147,707
University of Chicago $145,307
Morgan & Morgan $140,395
IBM Corp $131,161
Jones Day $127,756

Nice to see our universities and colleges with that kind of money to throw to Obama. Hollywood backs a liberal/socialist democrat. How surprising. I see banks as well, but those are the "good" banks I'm sure.

Harvard has so much money they could afford to let every student go for free. Their endowment is crazy. Of course the college for Obama. He perpetuates the biggest rip off in history. But because liberals love education, and being at college for 12 yrs, they love dem universities.

Basically by the govt throwing out loans to anyone who wants to go to college, the schools can charge higher amounts for tuition. Then they make a law, our govt, that says you have to pay them back no matter what. So for the schools and banks its a big winner. For the students you pay more for a product because once again the govt thinks it knows what it is doing.

CEO's? try going around and seeing what these administrators and presidents make at some of the universities of higher education.

[Fedaykin]

CEO's? try going around and seeing what these administrators and presidents make at some of the universities of higher education.

I see you're just making sh*t up as you go along again:

"According to Bloomberg Business Week, the average salary for public university presidents in the 2007-2008 academic year was $427,400. Retirement pay, year-end bonuses and other perks add substantially to this figure. The salaries for presidents of private universities was approximately 25 percent higher. These numbers rose continuously in the years leading up to 2008, and have continued to rise since that time. The New York Times reports that median pay for public university presidents reached $436,000 in 2009."

Read more: The Average Salary of a University President | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/about_7632634_average-salary-university-president.html#ixzz23vxogIM2

And here's the top 5 for public Universities(via Business Week)

#1: Ohio State: $1.4M
#2: U of WA: $900K
#3: U of VA: $800K
#4: U of TX: $800K
#5: U of MIchigan: $760K

#10: GA State: $727


Top 5 Private:

#1 Vanderbilt: $2M
#2: NW: 1.7M
#3: Columbia: $1.4M
#4: RPI: $1.3M
#5: NYU: $1.3M
#6-10: ~$1M

Nice high salaries for people at the very top of their game, but still only 15-30x the salary of the average U.S. employee.

Compare that to the top 10 CEOs (2011):

(there's actually a ton of lists, everyone seems to disagree. However, they all have a similar range as the below).

#1: Apple: $378M
#2:Oracle: $78M
#3:J.C. Penny: $53M
#4:Viacom: $43M
#5:Honeywell: $35M
#10: News Corp: $30M

Compared to the average worker, these people make 750-10,000x what the average household makes.

Comparing University presidents to this group is a ****ing joke, and so are you Cut.

[Irish Stout]

Barrack Obama:

Microsoft Corp $418,845
University of California $411,386
Dla Piper $314,977
Google Inc $303,225
Harvard University $276,824
Sidley Austin LLP $269,681
US Government $256,099
Comcast Corp $216,156
Stanford University $212,850
Time Warner $191,834
Skadden, Arps et al $181,253
Kaiser Permanente $174,692
US Dept of State $164,617
Columbia University $163,148
National Amusements Inc $154,517
Wells Fargo $147,707
University of Chicago $145,307
Morgan & Morgan $140,395
IBM Corp $131,161
Jones Day $127,756

Nice to see our universities and colleges with that kind of money to throw to Obama. Hollywood backs a liberal/socialist democrat. How surprising. I see banks as well, but those are the "good" banks I'm sure.

I'd hardly call Time Warner hollywood.

Most of the Unis are private.

It is strange to see Banks and Kaiser Permanente with Obama backers considering Obama stands more for reform and regulation on both fronts (Wall Street and Health Insurance) than Romney.