This article in The Globe and Mail today discusses an economic political model that has accurately (retroactively) predicted the outcome of elections in the U.S. for President based purely on economic data. I think (and hope) it's dead wrong this time, because despite the economic outlook "improving" (for CEOs, at least) it has lead to a "decoupling" (as the model's author puts it) of the benefits of the renewed economy and the pocketbooks and jobs of real Americans. We will vote our pocketbooks, but we'll also vote our conscience, too.