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Again today, I noticed a couple of talking heads discussing the election in terms of the "right track" or "wrong track" poll question, as if this single question were the sole indicator of the President's re-election prospects. In the past I think this might have been true. But times have changed, as well as circumstances, to the point that I now believe that this correlation was never more than mere coincidence. Coincidence is simply two (or more) events or circumtances occurring close enough together that they appear to be associated in a non-random way. These occur frequently enough to keep...

NEW YORK - Investors expecting a big Republican Election Day victory celebrated in advance with a buying spree Tuesday, giving the Dow Jones industrials a triple-digit gain and lifting technology stocks out of a slump. The Dow and Standard & Poor's 500 index locked in a three-day winning streak, while the Nasdaq composite index had its fifth straight gain. Analysts attributed Tuesday's advance, which gained momentum in the last hour, to investors anticipating a GOP-controlled Congress as well as another interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve, which meets Wednesday. "If we get a sweep by the Republicans, that raises...