The Center for Responsive Politics has apparently spents months putting together a list of lawmakers&apos; investments. And as it turns out, there are Red and Blue stocks. Not exactly shokcing news. Of course Republicans and Democrats invest in different stocks. The really relevant question is whether a parties favored stocks do better when that party is in charge.
According to CRP&apos;s list, the most popular stock in Congress in 2005 (the most recent year data are available) was General Electric, which was owned by 103 Senators and House members. Rounding out the top five were Pfizer, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and Intel—all household names and all stocks owned by countless mutual funds and large numbers of individual investors. "If you looked at any random group of investors in the country, this is probably what their portfolio would look like," says Jim Angel, an associate professor of finance at Georgetown University.