Why Obama Stock Is Down and Romney's Is Up on Wall Street

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He's met with the Donald (Trump, that is), and mingled with types like Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, in the past week. He's also attended high-priced Manhattan fundraisers in his honor. Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, a onetime exec at private equity investment firm Bain Capital, is no stranger to Wall Street, and that's beginning to look like a real advantage as he continues his campaign for the presidency.

Obama's policies as president have been a disappointment for many in the business world, and his anti-rich rhetoric—in 2009, for example, he called those on Wall Street "fat cat bankers"—hasn't helped him win their favor either. That's been terrific so far for Romney, whose longtime business experience has reportedly put him on the receiving end of Obama's finance industry losses.

As many as 100 Wall Street donors, including many investors, who previously backed Obama in 2008 have switched to Romney's side, Bloomberg reported this week. And according to an insider familiar with Romney's recent fundraising efforts, the numbers from the next Federal Election Committee filing period which ends Friday (September 30), should show even better support from individuals on Wall Street for the campaign. [Read about Romney's gains in the recent GOP debates.]

Romney—and pretty much everyone else in the 2012 Republican nomination field—is winning the financial industry by default, says Mike Green, a partner at La Jolla, Calif.-based Benham and Green Capital Management. It's been popular on Wall Street and among those who work in financial services around the nation to be in the "anybody-but-Obama camp," he says, largely due to the uncertainty that Obama-sponsored legislation, like the healthcare law and the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, has introduced to the business world. Obama's oft-expressed desire to raise taxes on high earners has also debased some old support from the industry.

Notably, Green says that Obama's policies shouldn't have been a surprise to the business world since they were apparent even before his 2008 presidential run. "Everything in his past said he was going to be bad for business," he says. "All that was always there. Why people didn't see it is beyond me."

During the 2008 campaign, Obama convinced voters, and many of his Wall Street donors, that his leadership would be good for the economy, according to Phil Levy, a scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Since taking the presidency, however, Obama hasn't been able to commit to the pro-business policies that some had expected or that helped past Democratic president Bill Clinton strengthen the economy, he says. "President Obama did a masterful job as a candidate of being all things to all people," Levy says, adding that Obama's financial team during his last campaign, which included Clinton administration alums like former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, had also given him extra credibility with the business community. "Part of what's happened is that both in polices and rhetoric he's done some things that have really alarmed Wall Street." [Read more about Romney's private sector experience.]

Obama's campaign has the help of super-rich mogul Warren Buffett, who's come out publicly in support of the president's policies and is scheduled to attend an Obama fundraiser Friday. In addition, the campaign says that Obama has made up for his lost supporters on Wall Street with roughly 230,000 new donors from all over the country that he didn't have in 2008. Indeed, as the majority of Obama's backers through the second quarter funded him in smaller amounts ($250 or less), he still retained high-dollar financial support from individuals on Wall Street and the broader business world. "It's no surprise that the Romney campaign is raising money from Wall Street by saying they want to repeal consumer protections and allow Wall Street to write its own rules," Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said in a statement. "The President has attracted support from Americans across the country, including business leaders, who recognize the President's leadership in putting us on a path to recovery and laying the foundation for a fairer economy—and believe we should pass his plan to create jobs and provide middle class security."

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Will Gingrich's 'Contract with America' for 2012 Beat Cain's Plan, Romney's?

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is the latest Man With the Plan in the 2012 GOP contest. Today, he submitted his "21st Century Contract with America" to join former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's 59-point jobs plan and former Godfather's Pizza magnate Herman Cain's 999 economic plan as the latest attempt to differentiate a candidate as the one with the idea to best take the nation into the future.

The electorate is "so concerned about the long-term direction of this economy, they want someone who they think can fix it," says Republican pollster David Winston, who worked for Gingrich when he was speaker. He says the candidates are asking themselves, "What's that compelling idea that says to the electorate: You should be president?" he explains. "I think that's what [Gingrich] would like to be able to present; I think that's what all the Republican candidates would ultimately like to present."

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The plan is 26 pages detailing how Gingrich would repeal and replace the healthcare overhaul law he calls Obamacare, cut taxes and reform the Federal Reserve, tap into America's natural energy resources, reform entitlements, loosen regulations, give more power to the states, and more.

Gingrich's original 1994 Contract with America helped earn the Republicans a majority in Congress, but will the new plan from the candidate with a "smartest man in the room" reputation make the difference?

Winston says, "We'll see."

Republican strategist Luis Alvarado of Los Angeles-based Latino Political Consulting doesn't think it will. "I am quite certain that it is a very well-thought-out, good plan," he says, "but I don't think it's going to be enough to bring him back to contention."

[Is Newt Gingrich 2012 Campaign Back on Upswing?]

Alvarado says Gingrich tends to come across as too academic. "We already have one president who is academic, that is Barack Obama," he says. "The last thing we want is another academic in the White House, and that's the way the party sees him. He's too intellectual, too academic."

The plan is already getting support from Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips, who came out in support of Gingrich earlier this week. Phillips likes the plan's framework, but his favorite part is a line at the end that suggests Gingrich plans to ask state and local leaders for advice in hashing out the details. "That's kind of a novel idea from one of our leaders or somebody who wants to be a leader actually listening to us," he says. "As opposed to most of the time just sitting around, letting us talk, and then going off and doing whatever else they want to do."

Gingrich campaign spokesman R.C. Hammond is confident in the plan, and believes his candidate is "offering big leadership with big solutions that are on a scale that no other campaign or candidate dares to match," he says. Hammond describes the plan not as an end in itself, but as "the beginning of a year-long conversation about what the next president [meaning Gingrich] will do to lead the country," he says, adding that Gingrich would "probably be the first president in history known as 'President Newt' instead of 'President Last Name.'"

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Why Obama Stock Is Down and Romney's Is Up on Wall Street

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He's met with the Donald (Trump, that is), and mingled with types like Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, in the past week. He's also attended high-priced Manhattan fundraisers in his honor. Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, a onetime exec at private equity investment firm Bain Capital, is no stranger to Wall Street, and that's beginning to look like a real advantage as he continues his campaign for the presidency.

Obama's policies as president have been a disappointment for many in the business world, and his anti-rich rhetoric—in 2009, for example, he called those on Wall Street "fat cat bankers"—hasn't helped him win their favor either. That's been terrific so far for Romney, whose longtime business experience has reportedly put him on the receiving end of Obama's finance industry losses.

As many as 100 Wall Street donors, including many investors, who previously backed Obama in 2008 have switched to Romney's side, Bloomberg reported this week. And according to an insider familiar with Romney's recent fundraising efforts, the numbers from the next Federal Election Committee filing period which ends Friday (September 30), should show even better support from individuals on Wall Street for the campaign. [Read about Romney's gains in the recent GOP debates.]

Romney—and pretty much everyone else in the 2012 Republican nomination field—is winning the financial industry by default, says Mike Green, a partner at La Jolla, Calif.-based Benham and Green Capital Management. It's been popular on Wall Street and among those who work in financial services around the nation to be in the "anybody-but-Obama camp," he says, largely due to the uncertainty that Obama-sponsored legislation, like the healthcare law and the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, has introduced to the business world. Obama's oft-expressed desire to raise taxes on high earners has also debased some old support from the industry.

Notably, Green says that Obama's policies shouldn't have been a surprise to the business world since they were apparent even before his 2008 presidential run. "Everything in his past said he was going to be bad for business," he says. "All that was always there. Why people didn't see it is beyond me."

During the 2008 campaign, Obama convinced voters, and many of his Wall Street donors, that his leadership would be good for the economy, according to Phil Levy, a scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Since taking the presidency, however, Obama hasn't been able to commit to the pro-business policies that some had expected or that helped past Democratic president Bill Clinton strengthen the economy, he says. "President Obama did a masterful job as a candidate of being all things to all people," Levy says, adding that Obama's financial team during his last campaign, which included Clinton administration alums like former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, had also given him extra credibility with the business community. "Part of what's happened is that both in polices and rhetoric he's done some things that have really alarmed Wall Street." [Read more about Romney's private sector experience.]

Obama's campaign has the help of super-rich mogul Warren Buffett, who's come out publicly in support of the president's policies and is scheduled to attend an Obama fundraiser Friday. In addition, the campaign says that Obama has made up for his lost supporters on Wall Street with roughly 230,000 new donors from all over the country that he didn't have in 2008. Indeed, as the majority of Obama's backers through the second quarter funded him in smaller amounts ($250 or less), he still retained high-dollar financial support from individuals on Wall Street and the broader business world. "It's no surprise that the Romney campaign is raising money from Wall Street by saying they want to repeal consumer protections and allow Wall Street to write its own rules," Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said in a statement. "The President has attracted support from Americans across the country, including business leaders, who recognize the President's leadership in putting us on a path to recovery and laying the foundation for a fairer economy—and believe we should pass his plan to create jobs and provide middle class security."

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