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PE Backing And Presidential Hopefuls—Who's Getting What?
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With Super Tuesday fresh in our minds and the fight to challenge for the White House heating up nicely (and shaping up to be by far the costliest in U.S. history), it seems an appropriate time to look at which candidates the private equity industry has been backing, and how much has been pledged. Figures compiled by Thomson Financial show no surprises at number one, with Bain Capital co-founder and erstwhile Republican canditate Mitt Romney coming out on top overall in 2007. The former governor of Massachusetts drew a field-beating $479,650 from PE investors through the fourth quarter. Second place goes to Barack Obama with $253,788 in private-equity donations, with Hillary Clinton, taking fifth place with $178,595.