Political Conventions Are Over - - - - At last

Both convents are in the books, both of them had their controversies.  Both seem to have candidates that the populace are uneasy about or at least that is what the pundits wish us to believe.  I must say the Republican Convention was more rational than the Democratic one.

But both had their issues.  Cruz proceeded to shoot himself in the foot.  He repudiated Trump after he had pledged to vote for the winner.  Really poor actions on his part.  He would have been infinitely better off to keep his mouth shut.  But he could not resist, an ego thing, and Trump let him do it and them capitalized on it.  In the end Cruz looses again, pity.  And probably dooms himself in the future.

In Hillary's case there is a definite split in the Democratic Party with Bernie taking his troops out of it.  True Bernie did the final nomination by acclimation trick but a lot of his followers have left the party.  A rift at best.   Then Hillary tried to exploit the "Black Lives Matter Movement" which turned off another portion of her constituency.  She can not win beating the female drum alone.  And Hillary drags Benghazi along with her email issues.  And they will bring up all the past garbage.  Gonna get hot.

I think both parties have shown that the general populace is not stupid.  They are more rationale that  each thinks they are.  Both candidates used their families as much as possible, sort of a new thing going on in both parties.  Or is that they could not get others vet their characters?  Trumps children really shown out in the family thing.  In Hillary's case husband Bill do not do so good.  To much schmooze and again credibility crept in to the mix.  I have to admit I did not listen to the daughter speak at all.  Must now have been much as there was no raving by the media after it all.

Now on to November.  I will stay out of the stock market until then.  The market is very antsy anyway and Europe is shaky at best.  I will invest in more defensive issues, broader based to forestall severe downturns.  And I will buy on down turns.

I think the real issues will start to appear.  One will be tax verses non tax issues.  Another will be immigration.  And a third will be crime, police, war in the Mideast and who knows what controversy will appear on the horizon.  Zika maybe.  There is sure to be some of that floating around and will pop up to each candidate's dismay.  And once again, it will be the independents that will make the difference.  Third party candidates will as usual be shuttled aside as ineffective in all manners.

So the race is on