Not just here in chicago but our nation s capital. i announce my candidacy for president of the united states. reporter: griffin s political contributions adding up to a whopping $25 million since 2001, according to cnn s review of state and federal election commission records. though most of his money has gone to republicans, he s also donated to democrats. including $430,000 to the chicago rahm emanuel fund. but giving to politicians is less like philanthropy and more like playing the stock market. after supporting mitt romney s failed bid for the white house in 2012 with a $1.5 million donation to his restore our future super pac, griffin is hoping for a better rate of return this time around with rubio. for more on our exclusive series on the richest political donors in america go to
If i were in mitt romney camp, saw poll numbers like that, 36, 37, 31, i would be damn scared because rick santorum continues to outperform his polling numbers. i think there s a good reason why. the intensity gap. if on tuesday, you look out the window, it looks like it may be a chance of rain, the romney voters say oh, i don t think so. but the santorum voters say oh, biblical rain? this makes sense. i m going to the polls. i love it. let s take a look. here is mitt romney. his ad in illinois. this is the killjoy of all-time. what we have been watching. a big word for something really petty. the absolutely negative ads run over and over again by rom. usually by his offshore operation, this restore our future super pac. this one run by his campaign with his name on it. look at the new mitt romney campaign ad running in illinois that goes after rick santorum. who can turn around the economy and defeat barack obama? not rick santorum. santorum s real weakness is the economy. he s ne
To outperform his polling numbers. i think there s a good reason why. the intensity gap. if on tuesday, you look out the window, it looks like it may be a chance of rain, the romney voters say oh, i don t think so. but the santorum voters say oh, biblical rain? this makes sense. i m going to the polls. i love it. let s take a look. here is mitt romney. his ad in illinois. this is the killjoy of all-time. what we have been watching. a big word for something really petty. the absolutely negative ads run over and over again by rom. usually by his offshore operation, this restore our future super pac. this one run by his campaign with his name on it. look at the new mitt romney campaign ad running in illinois that goes after rick santorum. who can turn around the economy and defeat barack obama? not rick santorum. santorum s real weakness is the economy. he s never run a business or a state.
The institution of the superpac, the new kind of campaign organization that has been created in the wake of citizens united and another supreme court decision first cropped up in 2010, being leveraged in 2012. here is what it looks like in terms of what percentage of the donations come from donations greater than $100,000. $100,000. not a lot of people that can write a $100,000 check. 86% of the donations in the super pacs were in donations over $100,000. i m sorry, this is romney s super pac. this is romney s. restore our future super pac, 86% of the donations were over $100,000. some of these quote, unquote disclosures and filings are contradictions in terms. because it turns out there s no information in them. right. the lanl labels and the nam prop organizations and so the so-called filings don t always
Good numbers on the economy complicate the gop message against the president? it is also the most powerful storm of the winter. it pounded colorado and now it s moving east but how far will it reach? we will bring you a live report owe that. countdown to the super bowl. some numbers are staggering like this. how much would you have to pay for a ticket now? we are going to have that and more in 15 minutes. we are lucky because you re working tomorrow so we don t have to pay for those tickets. exactly right. thanks. okay. thanks to release of the fell election commission filings for the end of the year 2011, we now know what we always suspected. that the new superpacs is an instrument for the extremely wealthy. we know pro romney super pac restore our future which is the largest got 86% of its money in donations greater than a hundred thousand raising nearly 26 million dollars from just 90 donors. we know the obama supporting super pac is barely raking in