<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/82c66834-6db2-4090-935c-64a126fbcb9e/CF790891-AA63-4608-9911-F8371598138B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1219" href="http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1219" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.bnet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1219"><P>Wall Street is coming on strong for <STRONG>Barack Obama</STRONG> in this year’s presidential campaign donation race. Big investment firms such as <STRONG>Goldman Sachs</STRONG> and <STRONG>J.P. Morgan</STRONG> favor Obama over <STRONG>John McCain</STRONG> by margins of roughly four or five to one.</p> <P>So states a recent <A href="http://www.chiefexecutive.net/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications::Article&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=220ED2CE2C63445EB969C0724469163D" linkindex="53">report</A><A href="http://www.chiefexecutive.net/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications::Article&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=220ED2CE2C63445EB969C0724469163D" linkindex="54" set="yes"> by <STRONG>Chief Executive</STRONG> magazine</A> which examined campaign contribution reports surveyed by the <STRONG>Center for Responsive Politics</STRONG> in Washington.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1219"><P>Overall, Goldman Sachs has favored Democrats this time by 71 percent and J.P. Morgan by 66 pecent.<STRONG> Citigroup</STRONG> likes the <A href="http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0881985.html" linkindex="55" set="yes">Donkey Clan</A> by 63 percent. Goldman, for instance has given Obama’s campaign $605,980 compared to $146,520 for McCain. <STRONG>UBS </STRONG>donated $370,130 to Obama compared to a mere $89,265 for McCain.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1219">As might be expected, Big Oil favors the GOP with 72 percent of its donations compared to only 28 percent for Democrats. No big whoop there considering that both President <STRONG>George Bush and </STRONG>Vice President <STRONG>Dick Cheney </STRONG>have very tight ties to the oil patch.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CF790891-AA63-4608-9911-F8371598138B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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