2008 Electability Morans

What are the candidates out there doing at the moment other than sniping? They are scrambling to address the economy, because, as even the Bush Administration knows, we are on the edge of a recession. Nobody wants it. Nobody is talking it up.

Polls on perceived negatives and strength mean little when the election is 10 months away and the unemployment rate may be 10% by then. Look around. The Fed is talking a half a percent rate cut, the Administration is negotiating with congress on a $100 billion tax cut / spending package, the dollar has crashed and consumer confidence is at historic lows.

Projecting the present as the future is foolish at the best of times, let alone now.

as to call them morans. That is the deepest cut of all saved only for freepers.

But you are so very right about using today's polling to predict November's result.
Most people who will be vote are not paying attention and will not pay attention until after Labor Day.

When a sigh in a debate can be spun into a losing hand, or the base is worried about being out of work, all bets are off.

remind everyone in the investment class, including the mega-wealthy and the average person saving for his/her kids' education or his/her retirement, how far below the 8% per year average stock market returns they have seen in the past year.

These days the CEOs depart with $100 million as the workforce is about to be laid off.