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Political Portfolios
You can tell a lot about candidates from how
they made their money and how they invest it.
From Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, January 2008
How much cash candidates raise -- and how they raised it -- is the main "follow the money" story in a presidential race. But personal portfolios sometimes become an election issue all their own.
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How the candidates invest -- and how they earned their own money -- can be a character reference, a résumé booster, an inconvenient truth or a political hot potato. In the 2008 election, a lack of money isn't the issue. Almost all the candidates had plenty of money before taking office or made plenty after basking in the political limelight.
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