This article was written by Michael Snyder and originally published at his End of the American Dream site.

Editor's Comment: It is interested to note that Snyder's correlation of elections and stock markets parallels with Donald Trump's accusations that the Fed has been delaying the popping of the stock market bubble [by avoiding raising interest rates] in order to preserve the legacy of Barack Obama and possibly to even deny giving further fuel to the rise of Trump's candidacy, as a the inevitable will still happen anyway.

If true, delaying the crash prevents the coming economic disaster from being Obama's liability. Apparently, given the historic trend of the stock market in picking the presidential victor, there is even more reason for the establishment to deceive people about the true status of the withering economy.

The Stock Market Has Predicted The Outcome Of Presidential Elections With 86 Percent Accuracy

by Michael Snyder

If you want Donald Trump to win the election, then you should be rooting for a stock market crash between now and November.  As you will see below, if stocks go up during the last three months before an election, the incumbent party almost always keeps the White House.  But if stocks go down during the last three months before an election, the incumbent party almost always loses.  Earlier today, Trump warned Americans to get out of the stock market, and if his warning turns out to be correct it will likely benefit him politically as well.  When the general population believes that things are going well, Americans tend to stick with current leadership, but when the general population believes that we have hit rocky times they are usually ready for a change.

It turns out that this very strong correlation between the direction of the stock market and the outcomes of presidential elections goes all the way back to before the days of the Great Depression.  The following comes from Zero Hedge…

Since 1928, there have been 22 Presidential Elections. In 14 of them, the S&P 500 climbed during the three months preceding election day. The incumbent President or party won in 12 of those 14 instances. However, in 7 of the 8 elections where the S&P 500 fell over that three month period, the incumbent party lost.