Showing some fine qualities of leadership, Senator John McCain made a fine concession speech.
There are some trying times ahead, which he acknowledges. The strength of our system of government is that people come together in times of challenge.
Sen. McCain’s speech invoked the very best sentiments from all of us.
“Tomorrow we must move beyond it [...]

An amazing thing happened today. Financial media all noticed that there was an election going on, and there might be some impact on stocks. Amazing!
There are two reasons why this story has been left behind:
1) The crisis in financial markets has created stock movements that overwhelmed any bump that one might get [...]

Here at Election Stocks, we always like to investigate links between politics and the stock market. That’s why an article on the Wall Street Journal’s website caught our attention today. It’s been common knowledge that even with the wide range of candidates in the 2008 election, voters have often felt an extreme dislike for most [...]

Yesterday, exactly one week before voting day, both the McCain and Obama campaigns released stump speeches to RealClearPolitics.com. These first hand accounts demonstrate the staggering differences that each side is taking to the final moments before the election.
Obama’s speech was riddled with anaphora, emphasizing the importance of the idea of voting. He knows that if [...]

A mere twenty years ago, a character such as Barack Obama would never be able to compete in national politics. His proposals for tax increases on the upper class would keep him down and out in an era of Reagan conservatives.
But these days appear to be over. For one, the candidates are actually discussing the [...]

We’ve had two presidential debates already and spectators have reached a consensus: they are boring! Candidates have been hard pressed to move away from their talking points. Debate over policy has proved merely pedantic and rather dry. Obama and McCain traded a few blows last week, for sure, but the overall experience was unsatisfying.
Now we [...]

We find ourselves in the closing weeks of the 2008 Election. Desperation by pro McCain or otherwise anti Obama parties really shines through in this time of year. Aside from McCain’s official campaign ramping up Obama’s supposed connections to domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and other radicals, many anti Obama elements are beginning their own smear [...]

According to the LA Times, the writer of a new anti-Obama book titled Obama Nation has either been forced to leave or voluntarily fled Kenya, after flying in to promote the literature and research possible connections Obama has to the leader of Kenya.
This is simply the latest in a new, aggressive campaign by anti-Obama [...]

Most of the Electionstocks Staff watched the VP Debate Thursday Night on CNN so that we could watch the focus group of undecided Ohio voters respond to statements made by the candidates.
One key thing to note would be Sarah Palin’s attempts to connect with the common person. She generally excelled in this area, as the [...]

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 a [...]