One of the tactics I'm already seeing on stock message boards is the economic threat. One freeper posted: "If the Dems win the House and Senate back, the MARKET is going to TANK!" This looks like a concerted effort. My response:
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Wrong.
From a slate article:
But Democrats, it turns out, are much better for the stock market than Republicans. Slate ran the numbers and found that since 1900, Democratic presidents have produced a 12.3 percent annual total return on the S&P 500, but Republicans only an 8 percent return. In 2000, the Stock Trader's Almanac, which slices and dices Wall Street performance figures like baseball stats, came up with nearly the same numbers (13.4 percent versus 8.1 percent) by measuring Dow price appreciation. (Most of the 20th century's bear markets, incidentally, have been Republican bear markets: the Crash of '29, the early '70s oil shock, the '87 correction, and the current stall occurred under GOP presidents.)
According to almanac editor Jeffrey Hirsch, the presidential party figures are among the most significant he's found. If the stock market were random, we'd expect such a result only one-quarter of the time. "I don't know why people are convinced Republicans are good for the stock market," Hirsch says.
Nor does having a Republican Congress help the market. A Democratic Senate showed returns of 10.5 percent (versus 9.4 percent for a GOP upper chamber), and a Democratic House returned 10.9 percent versus 8.1 percent for the Republicans.
When both houses of Congress opposed the president, the return was a stellar 12.9 percent.
http://www.slate.com/?id=2071929I think you've been listening to too much propaganda from the party of self-serving liars and thieves. They talk a good game, but when they are in power they run up the deficit, drive down the dollar, give their corporate welfare pals tax breaks, steal everything that's not nailed down (Randy Cunningham style) and leave the rest of us to pick up the pieces. They play the religion card and the hate card to stay in power despite the obvious negatives. Despicable people really.
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We need to counter Rove's propaganda machine wherever it shows up. On message boards, blogs, LTTE's etc. We have the truth and the facts at our disposal. We need to use them.