Obama, McCain big beneficiaries of Wall Street
[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/09/15/art.lehman.gi.jpg caption="Firms in the battered financial sector have been big backers of the candidates."](CNN) - Both Barack Obama and John McCain have strongly benefited from Wall Street this election cycle, an analysis from the Center for Responsive Politics reports.
According to the non-partisan research organization, employees of security and investment firms have donated nearly $10 million to Barack Obama this year and close to $7 million to McCain's presidential bid.
McCain has particularly benefited from Merrill Lynch, the global financial services firm whose sale to Bank of America shook Wall Street Monday morning. He has raised nearly $300,000 from Merrill employees this year - more than any other firm.
Barack Obama, meanwhile, has strongly benefited from employees of Lehman Brothers, the financial firm that filed for bankruptcy Monday morning. The Illinois senator has raised approximately $370,000 from Lehman employees this year, more than three times what McCain has raised from employees of the failing firm.
Both McCain and Obama sharply criticized Wall Street practices Monday morning, and are calling for more regulation in the investment industry.
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Raising money from employee of a company is not the same as being bought by Wall Street. This is irrelevant.
Maybe the employees of Lehman Bros. know who the right person is to fix Wall St.
These are donations from individuals, correct?
I work at a law firm and make individual donations; that doesn't mean my firm supports my candidate.
It doesn't make a difference. Every politicain benefits from Wall St. Duh!!!!
There is a difference between employee contributions and lobbyist influence and corporate sponsorship of 527s. Ever see those commercials with the tall lady dressed in black promoting off-shore drilling?
Of course, at the end of the day...they all benefit!
Wake up folks...McCain/Palin '08!
Well, it's time for America, to stop trying to fix the world, but starting to fix itself! What's the first step?
RIGHT, vote OBAMA as next POTUS!
He will be going into the right direction. HE has knowledge of the economy, and he had plans to stop such a desaster that hit Lehman Brothers – McCain got it once again wrong and is out of touch with America, with American people and with America's economy!
Obama/Biden 08 for landslide – The REAL change is comin'!
Well bank employees are regular citizens and we have a right to be inspired by Obama just like the next guy.
So what? Raising money from employees of a huge corporation has nothing to do with the current situation. They are just people working for a machine.
These are single employees donated on their own time. It's not money coming for the coorporations themselves. This is rediculous!
This article fails to point out that these are just donations from employees of those companies, they are not donations given form the companies themselves. Wall Street employees have as much right as anyone to make personal comtributions to a candidate they wish to support. That doesn't mean the Merril Lynch or Lehman Brothers can come to the candidates looking for favors and saying, "Remember those donations you got from our employees...?"
There is a BIG difference between personal contributions and corporate contributions or PAC money...
it seems lehman employees knew we needed change in washington.
how much has bank of america employees given to mccain to secure their 'buyout' of merril lynch?
Well that does it for me– No canidate should recieve money from individual employees. After all those employees are not independent thinkers, they are just doing what the company tells them.
Give me a break. better yet give me some information on canidates positions. Why don't you elaborate on that fact that crude oil is down because the market is concern we won't be using as much with a world wide economic slowdown. That tells me it not about "drill baby drill", it about having putting alternate sources in position to replace oil. That's been Obama position all along. HOw many times does Obama have to right in order for voters to make the right choice
"Barack Obama, meanwhile, has strongly benefited from employees of Lehman Brothers, the financial firm that filed for bankruptcy Monday morning. The Illinois senator has raised approximately $370,000 from Lehman employees this year, more than three times what McCain has raised from employees of the failing firm."
Change?
So Obama has benefited more what a joke and this guy is going to bring us out the so called economic woes. Keep drinking the Obama koolaide folks.
How is this relevant CNN? So by posting this is CNN trying to insinuate that the employees of Lehman Brothers are not allowed to legally donate to political candidates individually? Or is CNN insinuating that the employees of Lehman Brothers that contributed to Obama and McCain are special interests or lobbyists?!?!
GIVE ME A BREAK!
"Employees" of Wall Street firms donating to either candidate means nothing. The firms themselves aren't mentioned so this is no news. I work for one of the largest, richest corporations in the world. I donated to presidential candidates but am not at all rich or wealthy in my own right. So what does it mean? nothing.
This is a non-story CNN. Who cares what EMPLOYEES give to the candidates. What have the LOBBYISTS for these industries given to them?
Obama says he takes no lobby money but he sure has a lot of corporate friends writing big checks! If it quacks like a duck....
Finance, big oil, big insurance, nuclear reactors, etc. etc.
It is not registered as a lobby so a preppy suit can always say it is not technically a lobby. Nice lie.
obama can raise all the money in the world, it still doesn't change the fact that he is sinking fast in the polls! mccain/palin 08 hillary 2012!
In running the sleaziest campaign since South Carolina in 2000 and standing by completely debunked lies on national television, it's clear that John McCain would rather lose his integrity than lose an election.
Good luck Obama Before Lehman Brother out of bussines. You get a $ 370000.00. Not McCain.
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