In 2008, Big Business supported Obama with millions in cash donations. This year? Not so much. Last Count? 38 million to Romney from Wall Street / only 5 million to Obama.

 Here is a local story,  out of the Chicago Sun,  that will not make the national news cycle but is as significant as any campaign news "alert."   Like it or not,  if the business community is not happy,  the nation is not happy.  "Trickle down" is easy to ridicule,  for dummies that is,  but the fact remains that business generates most of our national wealth and all our private sector jobs.  Understand that spending is not "wealth,"  neither is debt or paid public service.  Wealth is generated out of profit and only in the private sector.  Obama is not rich because we taxpayers pay his salary.  He is rich because he sold a couple of books.  Last year,  Obama announced that he would raise a billion dollars for his campaign.  In that statement,  he predicted the election would be about money,  not his failed record.

Conclusion:  his record remains an abysmal failure and Romney is doing just fine,  when it come to raising money.  

Four years ago, hedge fund manager Ken Griffin was impressed enough with Barack Obama that he invited him to speak to his employees and helped raise $50,000 to $100,000 for his presidential run. Griffin also hedged his bets by raising a similar amount for Republican John McCain.But this year, Griffin — ranked by Forbes as Chicago’s fifth-richest man — and his wife Anne, a French-born hedge fund manager herself, are all in with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, telling friends and interviewers they think Romney will better manage the economy.They co-sponsored a $3.3 million fund-raiser on Obama’s home turf at the Pump Room Thursday night and have emerged as among the nation’s most generous donors to pro-Romney or anti-Obama SuperPACs.“There are a number of Barack Obama fund-raiser types from four years ago that have come over now to help with Mitt Romney,” Illinois State Treasurer Dan Rutherford said outside the Pump Room fund-raiser for Romney Thursday. “We’ve had time to see what an Obama White House would be, and it’s not quite what some people thought it would be. People see Romney and say, ‘Here’s a businessman who’s got experience’ … I think we’re finding a number of people willing to pony up.”Inside the fund-raiser,      Romney told those who had ponied up between $2,500 and $75,000, “The American people, whether they like [Obama] or don’t like him, recognize he’s over his head, and it’s time to put into the White House somebody who knows how to get this economy going, and I do, and I will.”      Griffin gave more than $1 million to Restore Our Future, the pro-Romney SuperPAC, since last December. The Griffins have given another $1 million to American Crossroads, Karl Rove’s GOP-allied SuperPAC, since last August. They have given to the Koch Brothers’s Americans for Prosperity.

Chicago Sun