McCain’s newest video ad likens Obama to the evil James Bond villain Doctor No. Surprisingly enough, this advertisement appears to trumpet the economic ignorance McCain has been displaying lately: from the gas tax holiday to the issues with offshore drilling. Shown below is the video itself. You may need to actually click on this post […]

McCain is widely considered to be a responsible authority on military and foreign issues. But as of late, many of his economic statements have been latent with a sort of anti-capitalist sentiment. This sentiment, whether it be more populist pandering or just plain economic ignorance, places some of McCain’s economic policies to the left of […]

A big issue this election is Environmental Control. Al Gore created quite a splash with his An Inconvenient Truth project, and the indecision over how to slow Global Warming has never been greater.
On the left, Obama has been the greatest supporter of environmentally friendly bills. His proposed market-based emissions trading system claims to be […]

Mike Gravel was not invited to the Dem debate last night (pretty much the only one) because he hadn’t raised enough money, and thus wasn’t a viable candidate per the organizers’ view.
Don’t count him out. He has an angel in New Hampshire - Gregory Chase. Mr. Chase has has paid for full-page ads […]

John Fout, TheStreet.com’s Political Correspondent, has two good articles on the race to hold the first primary, a topic we have been monitoring here at Election Stocks. In “States Seek Poll Position…” he describes the controversy and shows how front-runners may benefit from the compression of time. The second article is an interesting […]

From Top of the Ticket. Mayor Bloomberg doesn’t use as much public transportation as people think he might.
The Stump sumbits Rudy still has a lot of momentum, Thompson still waiting it out.
From Real Clear Politics. Jeri Thompson is nothing like a trophy wife.
Bill Clinton has an “unparalleled political judgement” and is using it […]

James Pethokoukis wonders on the Capital Commerce Blog from US News “Are Democrats the Peak-Oil Party?”
What’s Peak Oil all about? Matthew Simmons will tell you.
Pethokoukis quotes from Joe Biden at the NH Debate:

“We have to understand how weak [Iran] is,” explained Sen. Joe Biden last month at the Democratic presidential debate in Nashua, N.H. […]

First, Bill Richardson resigned from the Board of Directors of Valero Energy (VLO) in June 2002 to run for Governor of New Mexico.
Then, in June of this year, he sold all of his stock because
“it was just a distraction” in his campaign.
“Because I was getting questions, I just felt it was best to divest myself,” […]

At Election Stocks our mission is to find stocks that would probably be affected by the election of a particular candidate. Energy issues are at the forefront of the debate, and energy debates in the US will always involve coal.
One site we use to discover and verify good “baskets” of stocks for a sector […]

Former President Bill Clinton announced an initiative in collaboration with the mining industry to help reduce poverty in Latin America. No doubt Hillary will show support for this. This initiative would allow a coalition of mining companies to mine natural resources in Latin America countries while encouraging development and creating jobs.
This of course would […]