His second-largest donor for the upcoming election was Goldman Sachs, the powerhouse investment bank that felt the brunt of the financial overhaul law bearing his name.
President Obama's political team is fanning out across the country in pursuit of an ambitious goal: raising $50 million to convert his re-election campaign into a powerhouse national advocacy network, a sum that would rank the new group as one of Washington's biggest lobbying operations.
It is noticeable that for all the Tory rhetoric during the election about building a "northern powerhouse" to rebalance the UK's Londoncentric economy, there is only one MP in David Cameron's new cabinet who actually represents anywhere in the north of England.
In one pivotal race — which it was winning — the group went head to head with the teachers' union, a traditional powerhouse in board elections.
Far more likely is the point that the "northern powerhouse" was clearly an election vote-winning wheeze, which appealed to a Tory party thinking itself, at best, to be a partner in a coalition government after May 2015.
He added: "The Tories have pivoted out of the election, they have got their Northern Powerhouse, their grittier working-class workers party narrative going, they have got their one-nation framework.
That prospect may help keep many UMNO members loyal in the general election, and help sustain the party as an electoral powerhouse.
Germans face an unwelcome return to the polls for another national election after coalition talks collapsed Sunday, leaving the European powerhouse in political limbo.
They are now out to prove they can also be a powerhouse influencing the results of the 2014 mid-term elections.
This could have been the positive election vision for the Labour party, using, say, a catchy slogan like "Northern powerhouse".
