The concept of technical analysis is big in stocks and other equities. One simple concept is that stocks have support levels and resistance levels. Prices bounce up and down between support and resistance and once they break through one significantly a new level of support and resistance is established. If a price breaks the old resistance (top price of a range) level, that resistance level becomes the new support level or bottom of the range. While I was very familiar with this in stocks, I just noticed it seemed to apply to voting. The chart below shows how certain candidates kept bouncing off a high or a low until they broke through and everything resets. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/fl/florida_republican_primary-260.html It's interesting to consider and it makes me want to project Romney in Florida.
Yeah I never noticed that either. But unlike stocks I think the voting is tampered and fixed to a point. Then again who's to say the stock market isn't too?