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Over at Vox, Jonathan Allen notes that Hillary Clinton, sometimes derided on the left as doing Wall Streets bidding, is actually getting a lot less Wall Street money than people think. Allen notes that during her husbands administration Clinton was known for her relative antipathy toward financial types, which may be part of the story. But you should also put this in the context of finances hard turn against Democrats in general. In 2004, facing an election whose outcome was uncertain, finance and insurance split its donations almost equally between the parties; in 2012 it gave well over twice as much to Republicans as to Democrats.
The reason is, of course, financial reform. Anyone who tells you that reform was meaningless and that theres no difference between the parties should follow the money, which thinks that there is a big difference indeed.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/31/wall-street-now-hates-democrats/
merrily
(45,251 posts)BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)The key information is that the big money guys are strongly favoring the repubs.
BTW, I am not a Hillary supporter at this point.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Krugman DID mention HRC's name without the obligatory corporatist, lap-dog to the oligarchy reference ... So, you can understand why the piece is pro-HRC!
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)diS
malthaussen
(17,065 posts)... the 08 spike should have an explanation, too, don't you think? It's really only since 2012 that the money has turned away from the Democrats.
Overall the 2014 imbalance is not as noteworthy as the 2012 imbalance, which was obviously enormously in favor of the GOP -- for all the good it did them. I would be curious to see how the 2016 data points wind up.
-- Mal
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)In 2008, GOP policies had tanked the economy, but there was a strong segment of the GOP who were willing to let the entire economy burn in the name of the "free market." Wall Street, knowing that the democrats, despite some distate for them, are not willing to let the world burn, and millions suffer, so their asses would be saved. Asses having been saved, they did not like the busy body Democrats meddling in their affairs with stuff like Dodd-Frank. It's time to get back to de-regulation and pillaging the economy!
marmar
(76,982 posts)Hillary Clinton papers reveal a third of top backers linked to financial industry
Eight donors whose family wealth is based in finance gave $4.8m of $15.6m raised in 2015 but media figures like Steven Spielberg are second-biggest group
A third of Hillary Clintons top backers made their money from the financial services industry, according to Guardian analysis of new campaign finance disclosures released on Friday.
The list of donors to Priorities USA, a super Pac which allows unlimited contributions, includes well-known financiers such as George Soros as well as a clutch of less well-known hedge fund managers and investment advisers.
Together, eight donors whose family wealth can be traced back to the finance industry accounted for $4.8m of the $15.6m total raised in the first half of the year and nine of the 28 donations worth at least $100,000. ..................(more)
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/31/hillary-clinton-third-top-backers-financial-industry
If this is hate, I can't imagine what love must be like.
djean111
(14,255 posts)They know she has to say things like that in order to try and get elected. They know campaign blather when they see it.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Romulox
(25,960 posts)of their bidding, then.