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Knightskye
07-19-2009, 03:36 PM
Open Secrets has a list of Obama's top 100 donors.

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=N00009638&cycle=2008&type=I&newMem=N&recs=100

According to the list, he's received about $5,908,000 from banks on Wall Street, over $1,058,000 from Goldman Sachs alone.

$1,058,595 from Goldman Sachs
$747,732 from JPMorgan Chase
$723,840 from Citigroup
$559,769 from UBS AG
$538,131 from Morgan Stanley
$434,624 from Lehman Brothers
$432,992 from Bank of America
$326,653 from Credit Suisse
$323,337 from Merrill Lynch
$283,001 from Wachovia
$242,856 from Deutsche Bank AG
$238,035 from Wells Fargo

Twelve banks, seven of which have received bailout money.

Goldman wasn't his top donor. That was University of California by a small margin, but still. ;)