Here is a chart of the Dow Jones for the past 16 years. On the left, Bill Clinton. On the right, George Bush. Over the past 120 years the Dow Jones has risen an average of 8.25% annually for Republicans, but 10.85% for Democrats, and the average difference has been a full six percentage points for the past 60 years. I believe Bush's effect on the stock market is now worse even than that of Richard Nixon. Bush has wiped away the gains of the last year and a half of the Clinton administration - most if not all of Clinton's second term, when you count inflation. And no amount of patriotic fervor can give McCain better advisors or allow him to make better decisions than Bush.
It is time for business to decide whether it really prefers right over left.
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