10-21-2011, 09:21 PM
DaveS wrote:
You might find this of interest:
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-actually-rai...30978.html
Despite frosty relations with the titans of Wall Street, President Obama has still managed to raise far more money this year from the financial and banking sector than Mitt Romney or any other Republican presidential candidate, according to new fundraising data.
Consider the case of Bain Capital, the Boston-based private equity firm that was co-founded by Romney and where he made his fortune. Not surprisingly, Romney has strong support at the firm, raking in $34,000 from 18 Bain employees, according to the analysis of data from the Center for Responsive Politics.
But Obama has outdone Romney on his own turf, collecting $76,600 from Bain Capital employees through September — and he only needed three donors to do it.
Of course, there is a really glaring issue with the comparison made in the Post article. I wonder if you know what that is and if you do, how you feel about it.