Thursday, April 22, 2010

Goldman contributed to Obama's campaign; What about McCain?

CNN reports:

Goldman Sachs contributions to the Obama's 2008 campaign were more than four times larger than the $230095 in donations to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign


I checked out both the top contributors in the campaigns of Obama and McCain. Obama's top contributor is not Goldman Sachs. Goldman came in second. University of California came in first according to Open Secrets website. Here were Obama's top contributors:


University of California $1,591,395
Goldman Sachs
$994,795
Harvard University $854,747
Microsoft Corp
$833,617
Google Inc $803,436
Citigroup Inc
$701,290
JPMorgan Chase & Co
$695,132
Time Warner
$590,084
Sidley Austin LLP $588,598
Stanford University $586,557
National Amusements Inc $551,683
UBS AG
$543,219
Wilmerhale Llp $542,618
Skadden, Arps et al $530,839
IBM Corp $528,822
Columbia University $528,302
Morgan Stanley
$514,881
General Electric
$499,130
US Government $494,820
Latham & Watkins $493,835



Here is McCain's top contributors in his 2008 campaign:

Merrill Lynch
$373,595
Citigroup Inc
$322,051
Morgan Stanley
$273,452
Goldman Sachs
$230,095
JPMorgan Chase & Co
$228,107
US Government $208,379
AT&T Inc
$201,438
Wachovia Corp $195,063
UBS AG
$192,493
Credit Suisse Group
$183,353
PricewaterhouseCoopers
$167,900
US Army $167,820
Bank of America
$166,026
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $159,596
Blank Rome LLP $154,226
Greenberg Traurig LLP $146,437
US Dept of Defense $144,105
FedEx Corp
$131,974
Bear Stearns $117,498
Lehman Brothers $114,357


And where is CNN's report on McCain's contributors? And look how many Wall Street bankers who were part of the financial crisis and took bailout money donated to McCain campaign.

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