>I think that downward trend was in place a little before Obamas election . But whatever floats your boat as they say.
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>Do you actually watch the stock market? The day before the election and on the day of the election, the DOW was up over 300 points each day. I am not talking about the inital crash when the market dropped from 11,000.

Well I won't post lots of links but I think you'd find most financial news points at IMF predictiions of recession and other indicators as a cause of the drop not the election. Presumably you are saying the markets rose because they thought Bush would win.