Barack Obama Found Money in Google
Published in Kommersant
(Russia) on 3 November 2011
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Barack Obama changes his sponsors. The head of White House will be sponsored by high-tech companies in the upcoming presidential election. The Wall Street financiers turned back on their recent protégé. The details from Yuri Zhalin.
Microsoft, Google, Cisco and Oracle — these are the new sponsors of the upcoming election campaign of Barack Obama. The donations of high-tech sector companies have almost formed a presidential election fund. They collected more money than four years ago — $88 million versus the $80 million that secured victory in the 2008 election. The head of the Bureau of Carnegie Moscow Center Dmitrii Trenin is not surprised at all by this demarche of the Wall Street financiers.
“Barack Obama is fighting for his reelection as a person who protects the interests of the American middle class,” says Trenin. “The unreasonably increasing interests of the U.S. financial elite contradict these interests. Wall Street is disappointed in Obama, they think that he is too far left before the election.”
At the moment the main Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, has a campaign budget of only $33 million. The experts are not inclined to worry about the Republicans. Once the party will choose a single candidate, all means will pour into his election fund. Although, even if in the begging of the campaign Obama’s rival will be poorer, it won’t predetermine the result of election, believes the director of Russian and Asian programs of the World Security Institute Nikolai Zlobin.
“America today is so diversified that one good or bad statement, let’s suppose connected with the rights of the Hispanic population of U.S., or the rights of illegal immigrants, or abortions, or gay rights may greatly reduce or increase the popularity of one candidate or another even without money. These stories happen on almost every election,” he said.
Also Zlobin points out that Obama shouldn’t lose hope to receive support from the financial sector. Wall Street is used to investing in all the candidates. They make the key donations on the evident winner closer to the homestretch.
The organizers of Obama’s election campaign created a special website “Technology for Obama.” The price of membership in this club for the takers is $25,000 to $35,000. This amount includes donations to the fund of U.S. Democratic National Committee.
Microsoft, Google, Cisco and Oracle — these are the new sponsors of the upcoming election campaign of Barack Obama. The donations of high-tech sector companies have almost formed a presidential election fund. They collected more money than four years ago — $88 million versus the $80 million that secured victory in the 2008 election. The head of the Bureau of Carnegie Moscow Center Dmitrii Trenin is not surprised at all by this demarche of the Wall Street financiers.
“Barack Obama is fighting for his reelection as a person who protects the interests of the American middle class,” says Trenin. “The unreasonably increasing interests of the U.S. financial elite contradict these interests. Wall Street is disappointed in Obama, they think that he is too far left before the election.”
At the moment the main Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, has a campaign budget of only $33 million. The experts are not inclined to worry about the Republicans. Once the party will choose a single candidate, all means will pour into his election fund. Although, even if in the begging of the campaign Obama’s rival will be poorer, it won’t predetermine the result of election, believes the director of Russian and Asian programs of the World Security Institute Nikolai Zlobin.
“America today is so diversified that one good or bad statement, let’s suppose connected with the rights of the Hispanic population of U.S., or the rights of illegal immigrants, or abortions, or gay rights may greatly reduce or increase the popularity of one candidate or another even without money. These stories happen on almost every election,” he said.
Also Zlobin points out that Obama shouldn’t lose hope to receive support from the financial sector. Wall Street is used to investing in all the candidates. They make the key donations on the evident winner closer to the homestretch.
The organizers of Obama’s election campaign created a special website “Technology for Obama.” The price of membership in this club for the takers is $25,000 to $35,000. This amount includes donations to the fund of U.S. Democratic National Committee.