Wall Street may not have its own primary but then again voting is not necessarily the best indicator of support and enthusiasm for a candidate. After all, the apathetic and uninformed get equal votes with the committed and knowledgeable. The best primary for Wall Street probably wouldn’t be a voting primary at all. It would be a money primary, where Wall Streeters would vote with something much more valued than votes–cash–and candidates would report quarterly results. Not surprisingly, that’s very close to what we have.
So who is winning the Wall Street money primary? Hillary Clinton took garnered the most dollars in the fourth quarter, taking $388,391 from employees of the top 10 underwriters of U.S. stock offerings. Mitt Romney came in a distant second, with just $293,750 from that group. Democrat Barack Obama trailed close on his heels with with $251,860.
Clinton Tops Romney, Obama in Fourth-Quarter Wall Street Cash [Bloomberg]
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Carney:
Here’s great post idea. Bring back better know a trader for Cooper Manning, the aforementioned Manning brother not in the NFL. Yesterday he was said to be a commodities trader, though USA today reports him to be an “Oil & Gas Stock trader”. I assume they just got confused someone told them he was a “stock broker” then Cooper told them he traded Oil&Gas and USA Today’s headed exploded, so you get “Oil & Gas stock trader”. Anyway, everyone always wants to interview his brothers, I’m sure he’d be happy to be interviewed himself for a change. Personally I’d rather be an Oil trader than an NFL Quarterback anyway…. or at east that’s what I tell myself to justify my life choices.
Does your Career Center have jobs overseas, cus if that spineless chamelon Hillary wins, I’m 100% leaving the country before she redistributes all of my income to uneducated/unemployed/lazy/unambitious/etc schmucks who didn’t do dick to deserve it.
Anal_yst:
That’s how the salaries are already being distributed, how do you think you got on the payroll?
Anal_yst: I would have expected better from you. You can have a beef with Hil, but come on, your senseless rant is right out of Sean Hannity. It reduces the argument to a level that appeals to an unemployed factory worker – and makes him want to vote against her, when in fact its in his best interest to do the opposite. Which is just what Sean et al want….
This is news…how?
@anal_yst — technically, those folks you mention do the most dick as they have the most time off.
@Anal_yst – Vote for Ron Paul with me and we can save the country.
Ron Paul loves freedom and dicks. A vote for Ron Paul is a vote for dick. As President, Ron Paul would do more dick than you can even imagine.
can someone explain this ron paul thing? what’s the appeal?
if you ask me, the ron paul thing is just getting old.
@10:01
one day you will see the light,
Ron Paul’s gonna make it all alright!
Figures that the Hitlery supporter would be anonymous. Wall Streeters want to you vote for a hippie marxist so that they can pretend to be all “down with the brown” while they load on the tax-deferred compensation and all the perqs of wealth and status for themselves, while keeping the ghetto appeased with welfare and dick. It’s an age-old game. Wall Street for me, Marxism for thee.
@9:59 – Dr. Ron Paul was a gynecologist and has therefore seen more puss*e than you ever will.
Look I don’t particularly like any political pandering on anyone’s behalf, I just particularly don’t like Hillary’s pronounced belief in whatever makes her popular at the time with whatever group she is currently seeking acceptance.
Also, touche to ‘just me’.
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“while keeping the ghetto appeased with welfare and dick”
best comment of the week
This is just stupid. Wall Street doesn’t give money to the candidates they support, they bet on winners. Clinton brings in the most donations because she’s a New York Senator. You attend her fundraisers if you’re in with the in crowd in New York.
@Anal – Dude, I can probably get you a job welding on one of the major oilsands projects. The upside is that you should be able to listen to as much classic metal as you desire while working with your new friends in the Hell’s Angels.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen “ghetto” neighborhoods destroy $40 billion in capital like Wall Street has recently.
I wonder which group would handle money better…and why?
@12:11 depends the value you put on a human life? the homicide rate is through the roof in the ghetto, and negligible on wall street although the number of verbal threats is probably similar
@ Calgary
Dude hook it up with Syncrude, last I checked it looked like they needed a bit of help up there anyway…
@Anal – they are all gongshows up there. Take your pick – SU, DVN, ECA, NXY, COP, TOT, RDS, PCZ. You can have your F-350 in any color, as long as it is Fleet White. You want a dually backend with an extended box? Of course you do.
But right now I am interested in knowing who from London and/or NY might be working on behalf of TAQA…
Anal @10:23 Everyone panders – bar none. The trick is to decide what someone really stands for, cause after election day the pandering declines significantly. Jeez, is that so difficult?
Identity note – I am not the same person as The Observer @ 12:11 pm.
btw, Ron Paul’s not leaving a very heavy footprint tonight.