When a 2011 vote to legalise gay marriage in New York state was facing defeat, he persuaded a group of hedge fund managers to throw campaign funds at twitchy Republicans who were worried their support might provoke the party's conservative wing to unseat them, This money was said to have swung the vote.
Other top ten stock picks include Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Apple, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, IBM, Cisco Systems and AT&T, each of which makes sure to throw campaign cash at those members who help grease the skids.
They ran tons of ads, organized phone banks and showed up with their protest signs, throwing the campaign off-stride.
This week, however, disclosure of Ms. Ryan's claims that her ex-husband took her to sex clubs over her objections have filled the front pages of Illinois newspapers, throwing his campaign for a United States Senate seat here into prurient turmoil.
Yet Mr Kilpatrick's flame-throwing campaign went down well with young blacks.
Despite this, she still suspended her campaign well before the Democratic convention and threw her campaign's full weight behind Obama (after he agreed to forgive her campaign debt, of course).
"Joe Biden is a gaffe-prone surrogate who has managed to undermine President Obama and throw his campaign wildly off message," said Ryan Williams, a spokesman for the Romney campaign.
Criticism about both issues seemed to throw his campaign into confusion by day's end.
Running for re-election, he tried and then threw out campaign references to German economic and labor market standards as his economic goals.
Candidates found themselves fending off attacks on their records, and a shifting field threatened to throw some campaign strategies into disarray.
