2016 Postmortem
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There's a reason none of the banks, other large corporations, and the Chamber of Commerce never took her populist talk seriously.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/06/01/guess-which-presidential-candidate-top-ceos-prefer-hint-its-not-trump
A majority of chief executives of the world's biggest companies say they would support Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump for president, according to a new survey that upends the usual Republican leanings of corporate CEOs.
Fortune magazine in May sent a poll to all of the executives on its 500 list asking them to rank their preference between the two candidates. (No other options were given.)
Of those who responded, 58 percent said they would choose Clinton, while 42 percent said they favored Trump.
...Meanwhile, Clinton has seen a surge of financial sector donations since Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee.