I can't speak for you, but my 401K and other investments have done extremely well in the past year.
LOL...sound like my wife. She opined that her 401K made $30K last year, I told her it lost $60K the year before. Still I like the direction....
Now back to the battleground States.
As have mine.
It's not so much how the economy performs overall that matters in key states like West Virginia, or even right here in Oregon. Bush needs blue collar dems - in droves - to stave off the tidal wave of criticism (even if 99% bs) sure to be mounted by DNC/CNN/ABC. The patriotism factor should put him over the top, but if the ecomony doesn't happen to put some out-of-work loggers in decent paying jobs, they may reconsider. Economy is positive, I agree. But generating jobs in the key states is the iffy part. I think the battleground is the midwest - Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio. Oregon is similar to these midwestern states - basically rural and conservative, but with one major urban area that tends to pull the state liberal.