Obama And Romney's Campaign Donations Visualized [INFOGRAPHIC]

It's an uncomfortable truth, but one you've got to face: In presidential elections, the candidate with the most cash usually wins.

Now thanks to economic infographic site Demonocracy.info and graphic artist Oto Godfrey, we can actually see how this year's campaign cash literally stacks up. As you can see, it appears President Obama is currently winning the cash race, with around $307 million, compared to candidates Mitt Romney with $157 million, and Ron Paul with $41 million.

Romney may be catching up. After the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act, his campaign received a major boon, pulling in his biggest small-donor haul to date over the course of a 24-hour period.

Meanwhile, Obama has seen a drop off in big donations, which might explain his push to help make smaller donor's lives easier. The campaign announced this week that Obama supporters can now make donations via text message.

Check out the money situations of the presidential campaign frontrunners, courtesy of Demonocracy.info:

Comments

[Skully1969]

04:59 PM on 10/06/2012

I find it interesting the top banks currently donating to Romney, ie Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley were the top donors to Obama during his 2008 election campaign.... You can look this up on http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cid=N00009638

[BlameTheFed]

12:28 PM on 08/28/2012

I am proud to have donated to Ron Paul.

Republicans -- How can Ron Paul's foreign policy views possibly be "dangerous" if he has so much support from our active duty military?? Don't you think our soldiers know the score?

Democrats -- Notice how much support Ron Paul gets from the big banks -- ZERO. Ron Paul would have let the banks fail and saved the people! The Fed, who is robbing us blind and financing wars, death, and destruction hates him.

Our civil liberties are being threatened more every day. The government is corrupt and out of control. It is NOT your friend and will NOT save you. Remember Katrina? We have to become self-reliant and help each other, in a spirit of love and volunteerism.

If we don't get behind courageous, honest leaders like Ron Paul, we are going down fast.

[BBackSoon]

11:15 AM on 08/28/2012

Yea, whatever. This is donations directly to the candidates.

Now show us the money in the super pacs for each candidate.

You will find that Obama advantage evaporates, to the cubic money being given to the Pacs.

[BrandonMarks32]

11:07 AM on 08/28/2012

Wow no surprise here that Romney's backers are all BANKERS. Haha fits him perfectly. I also noticed that Obama is getting money from Harvard, but Romney isn't and they both went there. Hilarious. Buh bye mittens.

[Skully1969]

05:01 PM on 10/06/2012

Does it not concern you that these same banks contributed to the Obama campaign during his 2008 campaign? Why do they now support Romney?

[Jimi Cunning]

07:08 PM on 10/16/2012

Because Mitt is a money worshipping pig who would never reign in the banks actions. Duh.

[Skully1969]

05:03 PM on 10/06/2012

Check out this link. http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cid=N00009638

[gfe]

09:01 AM on 08/28/2012

"THE FED" is keeping wages down as the money is not worth as much as it used to and geithner was responsible for that and wants another quantitative easing.........

[msbeal]

04:31 AM on 08/28/2012

The donors to the Romney campaign read like the Who's Who of failed investment banks during the financial collapse of 2008?

What is that all about?

[gfe]

09:01 AM on 08/28/2012

and the SEC does NOTHING, as usual...... ask obama why

[msbeal]

11:51 AM on 08/28/2012

I know why. Making idiotic financial investments, such as loading up with derivatives based on toxic mortgages, IS NOT AGAINST THE LAW.

Where the crime did happen, between wink-and-nod loan officers and borrowers, has far too many to prosecute. Half of them don't even work in that field anymore.

The deregulation fanatics have won the game. It's not just the SEC. It's all the regulatory bodies have been completely neutered.

BTW, the closest agency responsible for preventing this type of crisis was the Federal Reserve which is the 'fall back' agency when the behavior isn't covered clearly by any other agency.

Ground zero for the collapse was the derivatives and CDO markets which are 'over the counter' markets which means no one is responsible to regulate them.

How do I know all this? Because I studied the Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, 2011 from the US Congress.

[WebbieGuru]

04:13 PM on 08/27/2012

Can I just de-evolve for a moment and say that I got a kick out of the 'brown' Romney they used in the graphic.

Makes me think that his election team is 100% committed that Romney not get a tan during the campaign, or it would hurt his electoral votes.

[jcobmusic]

03:23 PM on 08/27/2012

Too bad all that money doesn't go to Education or Healthcare.

[gfe]

09:02 AM on 08/28/2012

you are a product of goobemint schools

[susie1776]

02:38 PM on 08/27/2012

This article makes NO SENSE to me! What the candidates are raising is NOTHING compared to those awful superpacs. With people like the Koch Bros and sheldon Adelson writing $10,000,000 checks to Romney.....how can President Obama be ahead??? Are the little $25.00 donors REALLY doing more than the few mega rich? If so....then GOOD FOR US! I'll be happy to send the President another $25.00. To quote another thoughtful Huffposter from Bainbridge, WA. "Obama may be not be perfect......but he's not bought and paid for."

[iworkblue]

03:46 PM on 08/27/2012

It's just about the candidates and excludes the s. pacs. The post speak of this... so now you can say you understand it.

[StopMakingSense2]

02:27 PM on 08/27/2012

We have the best corrupt plutocracy money can buy!

[eltearpdx]

02:05 PM on 08/27/2012

Ugh. We ready for real campaign finance reform yet?

[adamjackhammer]

01:07 PM on 08/27/2012

One trying to be a white conservatory, one thinks his a white conservative, O who will win

[Guest User]

02:12 AM on 08/28/2012

Are you sure you know what conservatory means?

[adamjackhammer]

05:24 AM on 08/28/2012

In today worlds i don't think anyone is too sure what a conservatory means. These candidates definitely don't know.

[Skyler McLane]

01:05 PM on 08/27/2012

"President Obama is currently winning the cash race, with around $307 million, compared to candidates Mitt Romney with $157 million, and Ron Paul with $41 million."

Or, based on median incomes of $39,336, Obama soaking up 7805 possbile jobs worth of money, Romney eating 3992 jobs, and Ron taking away 1043 possilbe jobs. All in all 12,838 possible jobs wasted on just elections.

Thanks corporate America! Way to keep the economy moving forward.

[Skyler McLane]

12:56 PM on 08/27/2012

MEANWHILE, Americans can't find jobs.

Corporations "Oh we are in a recession, there isn't anything to go around." Then hands out hundreds of thousands, if not millions, or dollars that could have feed countless families and be spent by real people on real things and actually boosted the economy.

If you ever really wonder why there are no jobs its because corporations are buying lawmakers instead of paying workers.

[mushroomlingo]

01:00 PM on 08/27/2012

Perhaps the Koch Bros. should have taken their millions and created some jobs. The amount they've spent thus far would have employed a lot of people for an extended period of time.
Then again, this election REALLY isn't about job creation after all, is it?

[Skyler McLane]

01:08 PM on 08/27/2012

never has been. its been about money and power. who can stay in power and funnel money back to their respective donors. corporate america won a LONG time ago, america has been too busy with celebrities and sports and shopping and games to pay attention. lawmakers aren't in it for the people, they are in it for their donors and lobbyist.

[jesusjoe2011]

05:48 PM on 08/27/2012

the same can be said about George Soros and Warren Buffet.. don't believe the hype..dems are just as guilty of being sold out to Wall street as repubs are

[mushroomlingo]

12:41 PM on 08/27/2012

We need a separate graphic for superPACS and the 401(c)3's, with Carl Rove and the Koch Bros. sitting atop their respective mountains of money.

[mushroomlingo]

12:56 PM on 08/27/2012

Okay, I should have clicked on the graphic -- I should have said "driving" those pickup trucks.
Interesting contrast on the amount of $$ on the "against" Obama category.

[WebbieGuru]

04:11 PM on 08/27/2012

Good point. The money for Romney isn't actually for Romney, it's against Obama.