How Wall Street Tried, And Failed, To Elect Lawmakers Hostile To Financial Reform

How Wall Street Tried, And Failed, To Elect Lawmakers Hostile To Financial Reform: Wall Street, after giving more to President Obama during the 2008 election than to his opponent Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), flipped during the 2012 election to give the vast majority of its campaign donations to Mitt Romney. As Matt Phillips outlined at Quartz, “individuals affiliated with the banking and finance industries overwhelmingly channeled money towards [...]/p