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by the way i stumbled across this today and thought it was relevant to a point you made about campaign contributors.

obama's biggest contributors:

Goldman Sachs $653,030
University of California $576,839
JPMorgan Chase & Co $414,760
Citigroup Inc $408,299
Harvard University $407,219
Google Inc $404,191
UBS AG $389,294
Lehman Brothers $361,482
National Amusements Inc $360,703
Moveon.org $347,463
Sidley Austin LLP $329,776
Microsoft Corp $326,847
Skadden, Arps et al $320,550
Morgan Stanley $307,221
Time Warner $305,538
WilmerHale $275,132
Jones Day $272,755
Latham & Watkins $270,595
University of Chicago $268,285
Stanford University $258,388

joe biden's top contributors over time (since 1989)

MBNA Corp $214,050
Pachulski, Stang et al $195,375
Young, Conaway et al $174,729
Law Office of Peter Angelos $156,250
Simmons Cooper LLC $146,600
Kreindler & Kreindler $120,252S
kadden, Arps et al $113,225
Baron & Budd $108,050
Weil, Gotshal & Manges $103,450
Weitz & Luxenberg $93,750
Comcast Corp $83,000
Thornton & Naumes $79,100
Girardi & Keese $75,800
Saul Ewing LLP $73,385
Adler Group $71,450
Blank Rome LLP $68,150
Richards, Layton & Finger $67,800
Reaud, Morgan & Quinn $63,700
Cozen & O'Connor $62,636
Grunfeld, Desiderio et al $62,100