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Liberals and Democrats, including President Barack Obama, spent much of 2010 and 2011 excoriating the impact of outside spending on elections. This year they're getting into the game themselves, but fundraising on the Democratic side has stalled, with Republicans out-raising them by tens of millions of dollars. So who are the few big donors behind the Democrat's big money? Talking Points Memo's Eric Lach takes a look: [O]f the 31 individuals or married couples listed by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) as having given $1 million or more, only seven are considered to "generally" support liberal candidates. (This list, of course, only includes disclosed donors to outside groups.) These top seven "liberal" donors have combined to donate $10,180,042 so far to outside spending groups — less than has been individually spent by both Sheldon and Miriam Adelson and Harold and Annette Simmons, who have donated $25,000,000 and $15,200,000,...