Dirty Tricks Abound in Last Weeks Before Election
Source: http://electionstocks.comPosted on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 | In Politics & Your Money
We find ourselves in the closing weeks of the 2008 Election. Desperation by pro McCain or otherwise anti Obama parties really shines through in this time of year. Aside from McCain’s official campaign ramping up Obama’s supposed connections to domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and other radicals, many anti Obama elements are beginning their own smear campaigns.
Some voters in Virginia sporting pro-Obama signs on their front lawns have recieved the following anonymous letter in their mailboxes:
Dear neighbor, Please don’t take this the wrong way, but a friend has recommended that I reach out to you about a problem that you may be having but may not be aware of: Have you ever considered whether your ostentatious support for Senator Barack Obama is really a disguise that hides a deeply anchored form of racism towards Black-Americans?
The point of the letter is to suggest that people voting for Obama do so only as a form of expressing white guilt, or reverse racism. It goes on without expressing support for John McCain but does imply a support for the Clinton family.
Voters should expect these kind of sneaky attempts to sway the election with emotion rather than policy throughout the rest of the fall.
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Jeffrey A. Miller, Ph.D. is a former college professor with a hands-on, real world attitude. His quantitative modeling helped inform state and local officials in Wisconsin for more than a decade. A Public Policy analyst, he taught advanced research methods at the University of Wisconsin, and analyzed many issues related to state tax policy. In 1987 Jeff began work for market makers at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. His approach included finding anomalies in the standard option pricing models and developing new forecasting techniques. Merging these quantitative techniques with specific company analysis, Jeff also generated trading ideas from sell-side analyst reports. Through his years of experience in trading options, futures and equities, Jeff has come to be regarded as an expert in interpreting the effect of news on the markets and individual stocks. Jeff has served as a forensic expert in several cases involving such issues. He has also written a series of papers on investment management, describing both quantitative methods and those related to behavioral economics. |
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