Thursday, November 8, 2012

…And Now For Something Totally Different: The Election's Billionaire Winners And Losers (Or, Sheldon Adelson Kisses $53 Million Goodbye)


According to Forbes Sheldon Adelson left Mitt Romney’s Boston election watch party early on Tuesday night. Can you blame him? The Las Vegas Sands casino mogul gambled big on the 2012 election and lost badly.

Adelson was the single largest money man of the 2012 cycle, spending more than $53 million on super PACs bankrolling a Romney victory as well as those funding Senate and House races.

All the Republicans he backed at state level — Rabbi Shmuley Boteach in New Jersey, George Allen in Virginia, and Connie Mack in Florida, among them — lost but for one……

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