Obama dominates on Wall Street, beats Romney even at firm Romney ran. HRC 2nd, ahead of McCain

[draft_mario_cuomo]

Last quarter the battle on Wall Street was close, with Obama narrowly defeating Rudy Ghouliani and HRC placing a close third. This quarter Obama crushed the competition on Wall Street and HRC moved past the New York Republican and comfortably beat third place John McCain in the Wall Street sweepstakes.

The only other Democrat whose figure is mentioned is Edwards. The populist Edwards received about $40k from the top 10 investment banks, 1/17th of Obama's total and 1/10th of the DLC icon's total.

I am glad Wall Street is buying Obama and HRC's message of change. Wall Street is hungry for a change in the status quo and the establishment. It is so great Wall Street has finally seen the progressive light! :sarcasm:

== July 18 (Bloomberg) -- Wall Street donors are demonstrating their disenchantment with President George W. Bush and his policies on Iraq and the economy by giving more to Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than to Republican candidates.

Obama, an Illinois senator, is leading among employees of the top 10 investment banks, raising at least $739,579 in the second quarter, Federal Election Commission filings show. Clinton, a New York senator whose constituency includes Wall Street, followed with $424,545. By comparison, the top Republican recipients, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani, each received a little more than $330,000.==

==On the Republican side, McCain received $334,585 from employees of the top 10 investment banks, while former New York Mayor Giuliani, 63, got $330,450 and Romney, 60, took in $220,950.

Romney, who previously ran the Boston-based investment firm Bain Capital LLC, received $79,400 in the first quarter from his ex-colleagues, many giving the maximum. In the second quarter, Obama bested him in Bain Capital donations -- taking in $20,700 compared with $9,700 for Romney.==

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