Right - I assumed the crunt would win as well, just because that's the way it seemed like it was going politically at that time, there was this huge uptick in staunch liberalism/communism/marxism at the time, it was unusual, but the public was apparently tired of 8 years of constant war and a housing bubble which was really gaining traction the same year of the 2008 election. Supposedly now we're in the best economy ever or in 40 years, whatever the liars said at the Treasury earlier this year.