The presidential election is still more than three months away, but if fundraising is any indication, America’s top chief executives have already chosen their preferred candidate. The CEOs of Fortune 500 companies have given four times more to Mitt Romney’s campaign than to President Obama’s, according to an analysis by NBC News. Romney has taken $322,000 from those CEOs compared to Obama’s $75,500 according to the analysis. Perhaps Romney’s success with the CEOs is no surprise — he has promised massive tax cuts for both wealthy individuals and corporations should he become president, as well as a reform package that would make it easier for corporations to ship jobs overseas and hide foreign profits in tax havens.
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