Who's the Leader of the Free World That's Made for You and Me?

​"If Mickey Mouse were running against Obama, I'd be supporting him."

-Roger Pechuls, a retired restaurant supply executive from Newport Beach, who contributed $500 to Herman Cain in October, $500 to Newt Gingrich in November, $1,000 to Rick Santorum in January--and who now supports Mitt Romney for president.

Probably.

Pechuls pops up in a California Watch piece about Golden State Republicans having already pumped more than $26.6 million into the prolonged fight for the GOP presidential nomination despite our primary being two months away.

Californians have given another $11.4 million to conservative super political action committees, the independent, foundation-supported investigative journalists calculate.

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