I made a mistake on Obama.

[goddamnit]

This is one of those times when the spirit of truth overpowers ego. Not too long ago, I started a potent thread criticizing Obama. While my view on not conforming has not changed, there was a huge mistake by referring to Obama as the Goldman Sachs candidate and repeatedly bringing up him being bought out by the banks.

My primary basis for calling him the Goldman Sachs candidate and promulgating that he is bought out by the banks was this source. Looking at the table, I am sure you can understand why I might think that. But what I missed (and what nobody objected to me about in the thread) is that the chart is from 2008.

When we look at the 2012 chart, it is significantly different.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contri...=N00009638

On the other hand, Romney's chart is still a total banker chart:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contri...=N00000286

So, what does this mean? One possibility is that the banks donated to Obama in 2008 and he did not give them the cronyism they wanted, so now they withdrew support and shifted it to Romney.