10 Best Performing Stocks Since the Last Presidential election

None had anything to do with meddling government, outside of Ford. Ford did take any money from the $80 billion bailout program, but it did receive $5.9 billion in government loans in 2009. Bottom line: Buy stocks that serve consumers, not stocks of companies where CEOs play footsie with government.

Company	Ticker	Change since 11/3/08	Price
priceline.com Inc.	PCLN	1107%	$631.06
Whole Foods Market Inc.	WFM	873%	$97.49
AutoNation Inc.	AN	570%	$43.53
Expedia Inc.	EXPE	563%	$58.96
Wyndham Worldwide Corp.	WYN	500%	$50.44
Apple Inc.	AAPL	448%	$586.59
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.	CMG	436%	$262.84
Ford Motor Co.	F	431%	$11.3
Fossil Inc.	FOSL	421%	$93.86
salesforce.com inc.	CRM	373%	$144.7
Lennar Corp. Cl A	LEB	373%	$37.88
SanDisk Corp.	SNDK	373%	$43.61

(via MarketWatch)