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Who is bankrolling the top presidential candidates
Yahoo Financa ^ | 7/21 | Rick Newman

Posted on 07/21/2015 11:35:09 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

Yahoo Finance is closely following the money pouring into the 2016 campaign, and we analyzed newly released data to see which companies are aligned with which candidates. (Our full methodology is at the end of this story.) Not surprisingly, Bush and Clinton are pulling down millions from deep corporate connections. But we found a few unexpected things as well. While it’s no secret that Jeb Bush is Wall Street's preferred candidate, for instance, Hillary Clinton more than makes up for that with thousands of donations from attorneys at powerful law firms.

Many analysts consider ultraconservative Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas a fringe candidate, yet his campaign ranked second in the amount of money raised through the first half of 2015. And the iconoclastic Sanders—a self-described socialist—has a respectable amount of support from pockets of corporate America, with donations coming from employees of Google, Microsoft (MSFT), Wells Fargo (WFC), United Airlines (UAL) and other firms.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


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So lots of big money players backing candidates. Are these CEO's sending company wide emails urging their employees to support a certain candidate? I find it odd that certain sectors of the economy - or even specific companies - would tend to support one candidate over the other.

Lawyers for Clinton??? They know a liar when they see one?

1 posted on 07/21/2015 11:35:09 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Did Yahoo Finance do a detailed report on 0bola’s campaign donations. I can’t recall.


2 posted on 07/21/2015 11:36:19 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: TangledUpInBlue

It doesn’t matter who the backers are. Their guy will toe the line. Any president who goes against the New World Order won’t live very long.


3 posted on 07/21/2015 11:44:15 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

The one bankrolling Trump is Trump himself....he is not owned to any one....and what he’s doing is proving it...


4 posted on 07/21/2015 11:45:34 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Send 'slob boy of the oval office' back to Kenya ASAP, and save America...)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Partisan Media Shill alert:
Many analysts consider ultraconservative Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas a fringe candidate, yet his campaign ranked second in the amount of money raised through the first half of 2015.

5 posted on 07/21/2015 11:45:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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Clinton rakes in Wall Street cash amid tough talk

Behind in presidential polls, Ted Cruz surges in fundraising


6 posted on 07/21/2015 11:48:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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Bilderbergs, Bohemian club, Pemex, Russia,... anyone but voting Americans.


7 posted on 07/21/2015 11:56:53 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: HarleyLady27

The one bankrolling Trump is Trump himself....he is not owned to any one....and what he’s doing is proving it...


So what yer saying is the Trump candidacy is an “INVESTMENT”.. by Trump..
for possible future gains dwarfing any real estate “deal”..

The author of “The Art of the Deal”... as President could make massive “deals”.. or even as VeeP.. or someone high in Ted Cruz’s administration.. (after)..

OR even if he LOST the election could make “DEALS”...
Trump is looking for “VISIBILITY”... and is GETTING it..
Visibility is worth BUCKS.. before and after “the” election..

Politics is just business to Fascists.. which is just socialism to those their mommy told them they were “special”..
Same thing really..


8 posted on 07/21/2015 12:05:59 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Many analysts consider ultraconservative Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas a fringe candidate

Can anyone recall an instance where the MSM called any politician an "ultraliberal?" I thought not.

9 posted on 07/21/2015 12:18:54 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: hosepipe

The author of “The Art of the Deal”... as President could make massive “deals”.. or even as VeeP.. or someone high in Ted Cruz’s administration.. (after)..


Trump take a cabinet position? Yeah, that will happen.


10 posted on 07/21/2015 12:23:14 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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Trump take a cabinet position? Yeah, that will happen.


Trump thinks green.. i.e. shadow companies in the industrial military complex..
Ownership can be by Americans in Urpean disquises..

You know like usual.. or vice versa.. Urpeans in america disquises.. or both..
Lots of business the federal givernment does.. as well as State and local givernments..

Schools, highways, military, trash, postal, food, clothing, many(multiplied) billions in the Socialist economy..

Most given to “friends” with kickbacks, “fees”, payoffs, bribes, under the table, cash, and “donations” to certain non profits.. and other heretofor unknown gambits..

The “NAIVE” and gullible have no idea of whats actually going on..
Very probably they(most) don’t WANT to KNOW.. i.e. sheeple..
Which makes “the Wolves” pick their teeth after dinner..
AND sip fine wine..


11 posted on 07/21/2015 2:13:30 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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