The financial markets have been a bit of a dead zone over the past three months after surging in September on the back of aggressive monetary policy stimulus. Over the past two weeks, the major averages essentially flat-lined as everyone awaited the decision of the American people on Election Day.

Yet now, as people head to their polling places, Wall Street is coming back to life in a way that hasn't been seen since last summer. Key economically sensitive, cyclical groups are springing. Semiconductor stocks, left for dead since July, are surging. Core industrial stocks are breaking out.

By all indications, we're on the cusp of a post-election rally.

The chart above says it all. The Morgan Stanley Cyclical Index ($CYC), which includes names like Caterpillar (CAT) and Ford (F), is pushing up and over its September high. This comes despite an ongoing slowdown in manufacturing activity at home and overseas. The JPMorgan Global Manufacturing PMI contracted for its fifth consecutive month in October.

Data out of the eurozone look particularly bad, with the Composite PMI (including services and manufacturing) pointing to outright recession and a 1% drop in GDP.

So why the rebound in the face of all this? After all, major policy hurdles including the fiscal cliff of tax hikes and spending cuts worth 5% of GDP will need to be cleared in Congress after the election. Bipartisanship may be hard to find after a hard-fought election and razor-thin vote-count margins.

We also have ongoing tremors of trouble in Europe, with Greece's coalition government fraying at the prospect of approving additional austerity measures Wednesday and China kicking off its leadership transition with the National People's Congress on Thursday.

The corporate sector is already struggling this earnings season, with cost cutting no longer an easy avenue to earnings growth, given subpar revenue growth.

My hunch is that the market is pricing in an upset victory by Romney.

For one, the polls in the battleground states are within the statistical margin of error.

Two, polling organizations have been oversampling self-identified Democratic voters, given the blowout we saw in 2008. For instance, the latest national poll from Rasmussen Reports, which is fingered as a Republican-leaning pollster, has Romney over Obama 49% to 48%. But that result is padded, given Rasmussen's assumption that 39% of voters will be Democrats and 37% Republicans.

New results from Gallup show that while the Democratic-Republica​n split in 2008 was 39%-29%, it has flipped to 35%-36%. Include learning voters, and the split is 46% Democrat and 49% Republican.

Add it all up, along with some polling suggesting Pennsylvania and its 20 Electoral College votes are in play for Republicans for the first time in decades, and we could be on the cusp of an upset.

Whatever the cause, this appears to be a tradable medium-term uptrend. I am dumping my remaining shorts and adding new positions Industrial Sector SPDR (XLI), Freescale Semiconductor (FSL), ON Semiconductor (ONNN), U.S. Steel (X) and the Direxion 3x Semiconductor Bull (SOXL) to my Edge Letter Sample Portfolio. 

Disclosure: Anthony has recommended XLI, FSL, ONNN, X, and SOXL to his clients. 

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