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Originally Posted by Wellness Cash
Actually, they weren't.
His biggest donors were tech companies (Microsoft, Google, IBM) and Universities (Harvard, Stanford, etc).
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beg to differ, though instead of saying TBTF banks, I should have said "wall st" in general.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/in...&cid=N00009638
See "Sector Totals"
Lawyers & Lobbyists $47,722,009 (of course, lawyers & lobbyists can represent any industry)
Finance, Insurance & Real Estate $43,744,789
Communications/Electronics $29,055,271
Looking at "Top Industries"
1 Lawyers/Law Firms $46,988,063 (of course, lawyers & lobbyists can represent any industry)
3 Education $25,418,843
4 Securities & Investment $16,580,277
13 Misc Finance $7,038,619
18 Commercial Banks $3,421,453
Just my opinion, but I think it's fair to combine these 3, and that would total $27 mil.
and..
10 Computers/Internet $9,744,738
So I guess it depends on how you want to slice up the numbers. The big wild card is the nearly $50mil donated by lawyers/lobbyists as that is impossibly vague.