obama s energy policy, big promoter of gas and oil production, no surprise there. then we see with a month later, from this new superpac filing, he gives $985,000, nearly a million to romney and what day was it he gave the money? april 3rd. 34 days later, writes a check for $1 million. exactly. now, look, we ve seen these big mega donors. the dangers, you ve outlined them, on both sides, five or six that have given although far below where the romney superpac is, you know, what s the reason we pay attention to this, do these guys who give this big money, do they have special access? are they influencinfluencing. we don t know. harold hamm explicitly named at the top romney adviser on energy.
raised his total contributions to american crossroads to $6 million. the only individual donor to give more in this election cycle is sheldon adelson who bank rolled the gingrich superpac almost single handedly. by comparesing, the usa action isn t seeing near the same financial support. top two donors in april, labor unions. air traffic controllers and plumbers and pipe fitters. top individual contribution came from joseph kiani of a medical tech company. the big money donors aren t contributing to the president s superpac. at least not yet. more than 30 individuals who have donated a million dollars or more to souts gro far. two of them, amy goldman and comedian bill maher, who made contributions more than two months ago. joining me now, nbc news investigative correspondent michael isikoff. you ve been doing more than just going through the reports.
the graphic. the romney campaign it is a who s who of the finance world. goldman sachs, prit waterhouse, bank of america, jpmorgan chase, morgan stanley. not a surprise. romney s superpac, more than half come from the private equity hedge fund. a subject of controversy now because of bain capital. it is. look at the obama campaign top donors. decidedly tech. more of a tech field. microsoft, university of california, one of our parent companies, comcast corporation. university of california. now, that just shows what that is, open secrets does, all the people that work at a place that list their employer. right. and they coddle them together. let s not forget the hollywood money as well. big george clooney fund-raiser. the biggest, jeffrey katzenberg.
dreamworks. $2 million. really is a west coast/east coast thing. right? the east coast money is with romney. the west coast money is with obama. and with hamm, the energy money. let s not forget. a lot of that energy money. by the way, one interesting wrinkle on the rundown you gave, that $750,000 for bob perry, asked for a refund. still given $3 million to the romney superpac for unexplained reasons, of course the superpac won t comment. asked for his money back, on this last one. you know, go figure. i don t know. he s still obviously one of the big mega donors to the republicans and romney campaign, you know. you re going to dig, mike and get it. michael isikoff, thank you for walking us through this. next what did our new battleground poll show about romney s rough road 270, plus the surprise cameo in a new campaign ad and a congressman s attempts to back track on
points in the keystone state an even wider gap than the same poll five weeks ago. those numbers offer a good explanation for why romney s superpac is staying off in pennsylvania. pennsylvania votervise seen the ad that they are running. let s get to pennsylvania and wisconsin. twl is a wisconsin poll out that has the president up eight points there. we are about 20 minutes away from the opening bell. time for the market run down. jobs report tomorrow and seems like every day we think we know what is coming with the jobs report we get a piece of evidence like we just got a few minutes ago about jobless claims. the futures are pretty much flat. yesterday a disappointing number made people have jitters. the claims fell more than