October 11, 2008
One of those unforeseeable external events
We've really been overwhelmed with graphs over the past month, both graphs of the market's performance and graphs of the candidates' performance, but this is the first one I've seen that puts the two together. The correlation between McCain's polling numbers and the S&P 500 index is pretty striking. Arjun Modi (a high school senior inspired by the West Wing!) puts it at .77 and calls the financial crisis a black swan.
hey Paul, what's up?
I suppose while we're on the subjext of pol approval ratings and sundry metrics, how about a graph of the relationship between oil prices and GWB's approval ratings? I haven't seen one, but I suspect there's a significant correlation going on there...
i would guess so, but i think that's a little less startling because it would surely be true of any sitting president. this effect, presumably, wouldn't apply to any gop candidate.
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