Academia profitable for Obamademics

Politico reports:

Academics – long prolific political contributors – were among the biggest donors to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.

And recent disclosures by some of the academics he tapped for top administration posts offer a window into the sometimes lucrative world of big-time academia, suggesting that the stereotypes of rumpled, cash-strapped professors don’t always apply.

Some of America's greatest rent seekers are in academia.