Wall Street Starts to Lean Democratic – Also $100 Million More for Dems Than Republicans
July 23rd, 2007
From ABC News:
As campaign contributions pour in to the 2008 presidential race, employees at some of the nation’s largest banks and investment firms are deciding more often than not to write out big checks to Democratic candidates.
Workers at Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers and elsewhere are putting their cash behind Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards over the Republican front-runners, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission filings by ABC News.
At Goldman Sachs, the largest of the firms, employees donated $542,000 to the top three Democrats and the top three Republicans from Jan. 1 through June 30.
More than 63 percent of those dollars went to Democrats, with Obama getting the bulk of that cash  $184,750, according to the ABC analysis.
Meanwhile Dems have received $100 Million more in campaign contributions than Republicans.
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