Since the Clinton era, the Democratic Party has joined the Republicans in seeking Wall Street donations. Wall Street is the top investor in the Romney campaign and its allied Super PACs. And Wall Street is the "single largest source of cash for the national Democratic Party's various campaign committee," well ahead of entertainment and real estate developer donors, notes Thomas Edsall in the New York Times. Given these polluted streams of campaign money, Obama is "cautious" in his criticisms of Wall Street, while Romney is an "outspoken proponent of the industry's agenda," Edsall concludes.
Given these toxic trends, it is entirely possible that by November, Tea Party -- driven Republicans will control the White House, Supreme Court and both houses of Congress, pushing the States towards a 1929-style crisis. Or Obama will be re-elected to govern alone in a sea of conservative followers of Ayn Rand and Democratic lifers too timid to fight.
The outcome in Wisconsin only makes that scenario more likely.
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