Record Wall Street Money Flows to Republicans
The $169 million from donors in the securities and investment industry is the most they’ve ever contributed in a midterm election, according to Center for Responsive Politics data.
A pedestrian walks past a Wall Street sign and security camera in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, April 24, 2013.
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Most of America isn’t interested in next week’s elections. Wall Street is an exception.
The $169 million from donors in the securities and investment industry is the most they’ve ever contributed in a midterm election, according to Center for Responsive Politics data. That makes them the most generous group for the first time in decades, with about two-thirds of the money going to Republicans in what the Washington-based nonprofit projects will be the country’s most expensive non-presidential election.