It’s been a lasting debate in the fields of politics and economic policy as well as on our own electionstocks.com whether the market does better under Democratic or Republican leaders. Very recently, Donald Luskin posted his own theory on the subject in the Wall Street Journal. Young Harvard professor Jeff Frankel rebutted and effectively debunked [...]

Friday’s debate was boring, no matter which way you slice it. The candidates hardly looked at the camera, let alone each other. There was no passionate butting of heads: only a slightly agressive McCain and a mildly defensive Obama. Because of this, there was no general agreement on who “won” the debate. Sure McCain was [...]

Depressed about bad economic times? From Chris Cillizza at The Fix: Hockey Moms Against Palin. He’s always coming up with something interesting.

John McCain released a statement today announcing that Friday’s debate ought to be postponed in order to better deal with the economic crisis of this past week. The gut reaction by many is that he is simply playing good political strategy. Obama is widely considered to be better economically than McCain and surely he would [...]

McCain isn’t exactly the most ethanol freindly candidate – but then again, nobody is after the Iowa primaries. However, this could hurt the Republican candidate in more areas than just Iowa. He’s also losing ground in Minnesota. Surprisingly, McCain and Obama are in dead heat in Indiana, a traditionally conservative state. Although it could just [...]

Scott Adams took considerable effort to make his survey an objective one that hits on key facts about economic thought. Because of this objective, Adams posted a very well written comment criticizing the validity of his survey (which is quoted below). We recommend you follow up on The Dilbert Blog at dilbert.com/blog to keep up [...]

Scott Adams, the cartoonist best known for his work writing Dilbert, recently took it upon himself to interview 500 economists to see what their views were on who would be better for the economy: John McCain or Barack Obama. Unfortunately, the economists did not reveal any startling revelation or even cross party lines, with Democrats [...]

Not exactly. While McCain made the unfortunate comment that “the fundamentals economy are strong.” Obama needs to put forth an actual plan for that change he will bring. Biden put in his two cents worth while campaigning near Detroit: “Ladies and gentlemen, I could walk from here to Lansing, and I wouldn’t run into a [...]

If everyone has a doppelganger I think Tina Fey and Sarah Palin have found theirs. In a very humorous skit on Saturday Night Live Tina captures Sarah Palin to the “T,” as she and “Hillary” discuss sexism in the election. We couldn’t stop laughing, but Carly Fiorina thought Tina was “Disrespectful and Sexist”. Get a [...]

And why isn’t Obama doing more of it? Slate Magazine claims that since July, McCain and campaign have made 11 claims that are barely true, 8 that are categorically false, and 3 of what they call “pants-on-fire-lies.” McCain et al are not embarrassed about it either. In fact, they keep repeating them. Obama-Biden, on the [...]