NEW YORK TIMES: …More than 40 individuals and couples had given at least $250,000 to the leading Democratic super PACs through the beginning of September, according to a New York Times analysis of campaign finance records, and dozens more have given $100,000 or more.
But the money is not coming from the expected places. Few of the wealthiest men and women closest to Mr. Obama have donated, even as the super PAC backing Mitt Romney raises millions of dollars from his friends and former colleagues. Only a few gay donors are among the biggest givers, despite Mr. Obama’s embrace of same-sex marriage last spring. Most of the wealthy liberals who financed the party’s last major outside spending effort, in 2004, remain on the super PAC sidelines.
In their place, the Democratic groups are raising heavily from the party’s traditional, pre-Obama sources of campaign cash: trial lawyers, unions and Hollywood. And at a time when Mr. Obama’s own big donors often complain about his indifference and inattention to them, Priorities USA has had more luck outside the president’s inner circle than inside it… (more)
