Today, CNBC had Vince Farrell and Kris Jenner on to discuss how healthcare stocks would be affected by the election (click here to watch the video). Jenner believed that speculation at this point couldn’t be used to obtain specific stocks for either candidate, but Farrell seemed skeptical about Jenner’s belief. Either way they both seemed [...]

Recently McCain and Hillary stunned many in the field of economists by defying all of their detailed and unanimous advice and embracing the ridiculous gas tax vacation plan. Barack Obama used this issue to prove himself well versed in economics and prepared to accept advice when it came along. Angry Bear Blog had a really [...]

Yesterday, Ron Paul said that he had a major announcement to make later that night. And indeed it was a major one, as he announced that he was ending his presidential campaign last night. Just today however, Ron Paul posted a thank you to all his supporters on his website. And this thank you makes [...]

As we have predicted at Election Stocks for some time and Kudlow predicted two nights ago on his show, Barack Obama is indeed depolarizing for a wider appeal during the General Election. Great evidence of this comes with the news that Obama has changed up his economic advisor. This new advisor symbolizes the bipartisan effort [...]

On CNBC yesterday, the theme seemed to be Obama vs. McCain. The McCain supporters focused on McCain’s pro-growth tax cuts and attacked what they called protectionism from Obama; while the Obama supporters attempted to show Obama’s policies moving towards the middle while attempting to portray McCain’s policies as impossible. The main points that were brought [...]

This is nothing short of bizzare. Guess which politician orated the following quote: We should be able to deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies If you guessed John McCain, you would be correct. Obama has received a lot of criticism lately for media pandering and putting forth plans with little or no real value, [...]

The other day we mentioned Obama raising the Capital Gains Tax, and a reader mentioned how McCain’s tax cuts are better for the economy. So today, we will examine both the plausibility of McCain’s tax cuts and the economic effects of them. Generally speaking tax cuts are an economic stimulus of sorts. They allow the [...]

In a video from this morning, CNBC brought together Senior Economic Advisors for both the Obama and McCain campaigns. Here they “drew the economic battle lines” for the 2008 election season. We at Election Stocks were particularly interested with what they said about the Capital Gains Tax. Our Capital Gains Tax, now at 15%, would [...]

Obama and McCain both clearly feel like diplomatic relations with Iran are an important issue. Obama feels that diplomatic talks should be held, but military force is an option should Israel be an option. McCain feels like talks with President Ahmadinejad would be useless and only advance Ahmadinejad’s message. As usual, we won’t pick a [...]