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Article: Clinton bucks trend and benefits from arms industry cash
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 19, 2007
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By Leonard Doylein Washington
The US arms industry is backing Hillary Clinton for President and
has all but abandoned its traditional Republican allies.
Mrs Clinton has also emerged as Wall Street's favourite, where
investment bankers opened their wallets in unprecedented numbers for
the New York Senator over the past three months. In the process,
they dumped their earlier favourite Barack Obama.
Mrs Clinton's wooing of the defence industry is all the more
remarkable given the frosty relations between Bill Clinton and the
military during his presidency. An analysis of campaign
contributions reveals that senior defence industry employees are
pouring money into her war chest in the belief ...