Column: No tea for Wall Street in fall elections
Author: David Weidner, MarketWatch
Mar 09, 2010
"Tea party? When it comes to elections, Wall Street traditionally has but one party of choice: the winning party.
Blaming the financial industry may be the only issue on which there's common ground in Washington. The furor surrounding bailouts and government spending has ignited a whole anti-government movement that could tilt the scales come fall.
But that sentiment hasn't swayed the industry from its longtime strategy of backing incumbents and frontrunners."
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