also a big deal before the 2004 election.
Commodity index funds were a big driver. Don't know if you recall but about 6 weeks before the election, Goldman Sachs rejiggered the GSCI to sharply reduce gasoline in the mix and gas prices dropped about .50, merely from the paper shuffling.
One of the skankiest things ever, right in plain sight and largely uncommented upon.
Was the only time in the last 8 elections that the GOP has won the popular majority. But this time the EC very nearly flipped the other way. Ohio!!
