Throughout Obama’s campaign, the issue of race has come up multiple times on both the sides of Obama supporters and the McCain supporters. But it’s when racism is imagined and an earnest statement is twisted to appear insensitive that racism in this election truly becomes a terrible thing. For example, McCain’s new ad portraying Obama [...]

The surge worked. That seems to be an undeniable truth right now, with some simple implications. For example, McCain’s support should grow for supporting the surge and Obama should look bad for not supporting it. However, it is not that simple. First of all, now that the region is relatively stable, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri [...]

We at Election Stocks have long viewed Obama as a free trade kind of guy – seeing through empty promises he gave in weak economy states and paying attention to “gaffes” where he reassured trade partners of his real feelings. Many other reasonable, sensible articles such as this one in yesterday’s links update share this [...]

All the recent news seems to be about Obama’s trip to Europe, so jumping off the Obama love train, we are going to report on McCain’s recent meeting with the Dalai Lama. If you haven’t heard, McCain and the Dalai Lama meet in the US on Friday. After McCain expressed his concerns over China’s mistreatment [...]

Today Politico had an article with some very interesting statistics in it. For example: Only 31 percent of Americans say McCain is the candidate “better able to improve economic conditions,” according to a recent CBS/New York Times Poll, compared with 51 percent for Obama. That lead has held stable for months. And even though McCain [...]

I always have sympathy for political candidates that are interviewed and questioned throughout their entire day by a whole host of citizens, workers in the media, etc. But John McCain’s latest list of gaffes are slightly alarming. According to The Washington Post: McCain referred to the “Iraq-Pakistan border” in a “Good Morning America” interview; since [...]

Obama supports fair trade; McCain free. On trade, the two candidates seem like polar opposites. However, since both candidates did not fair very well with workers in the primaries, they haven’t been speaking much on trade. Bloomberg.com had a great article discussing the trade issue. Trade can be a complex issue; even workers who benefit [...]

We’ve covered Obama’s healthcare plan and its impact on the healthcare sector previously here at Election Stocks, but new details about the plan are raising doubts that it could ever be put into place. For instance, Obama stated that his plan will give healthcare insurance to 47 million Americans. But as the New York Post [...]

To any rational person this seems like a simple, logical idea. Unfortunately people tend to be irrational if it means it could save them money in the short term. But what happens over the long term? To answer that we turn to EconomistMom: the deficit as a share of the economy (GDP) would actually fall [...]

Our post the other day mentioned how lifting the offshore oil drilling ban could drop oil prices purely from the psychological effect on speculators. Recently McCain even said that the gas tax holiday and lifting the drilling ban would have mainly “psychological benefits”. So just how far can these psychological effects go? This is a [...]