Apple’s (AAPL) stock has been in free-fall over the last few months, shedding 42% of its value after reaching an all-time high of $705.07 last September. Shares were falling hard again Thursday and could end the trading day below $400 a share -- the first time since December 2011. (Update: Apple shares closed down 2.6% at $392.18 after breaking $390 intraday. Nearly 23 million shares traded vs. the average of 17.4 million in the prior three months).

Wall Street analysts have also changed their tune on the iPhone maker. When the stock was exploding to new highs last year, analysts were clamoring to declare new price targets. One would be forgiven to assume a “who is the biggest Apple bull?" competition was taking place during this heady time.

Now, estimates have been reconfigured and reevaluated to reflect a grim reality: the company’s rapid hot growth is cooling, new product announcements are ebbing and Apple’s celebrated “cool” factor may be over. Some people are even comparing Apple

It’s a big reporting season right now, not just for corporate earnings, but also for disclosure of political contributions.

“It’s almost like an earnings report but they all come in on the same day,” says Kent Cooper, editor of Roll Call’s new Political Moneyline blog which tracks Federal Election Commission disclosures. “Most of your candidates, PACs of companies, and trade associations report on a quarterly basis where they are raising money and how they’re spending it, [and] who is contributing it.”

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Cooper has been combing through FEC documents to follow the money. He talked to The Daily Ticker about some of his most interesting and salacious recent findings in the accompanying video.

Here are a few:

• Defense Contractors like Lockheed Martin (LMT) and Honeywell (HON) have stepped up spending (note: these companies also conduct non-defense business with the government). The Lockheed