But 2012, he said, will be a "macro-election".
As in the election, these macro-sociological events also differ from micro-sociological face-to-face dominance competitions, because the outcomes are vicariously experienced by members of the participating groups.
Preannouncements, earnings, the price of oil, and the weakening euro set the table, and the presidential election was the macro event that ignited selloff," says Brian Conroy, head of listed trading at J.P. Morgan.
Cable's unprecedented letter, sent on 24 November on his own initiative, was designed to assert the independence of Lib Dem macro-economic policy after the election.
On the Agenda: Following the outcome of the general election, what is the macro outlook for the next four years?
At the congressional level we are of course disappointed that many clean energy leaders were defeated, but it is clear that this election was about larger macro issues.
Behind that row is a wider dispute about the tone of Lib Dem macro-economic policy in next year's election.
There are surveys of institutional investors, macro analysis of securities markets in midterm election years and pattern recognition strategies in portfolio management.
While the nation was appropriately preoccupied with the giant macro-concerns related to the nomination and election of a US president, this poisonous micro legislative maneuver authorized a cynical and costly looting of the treasury.
a) If macro conditions stay the same, Hillary will win the election 54% to Trump's 41%.
Their experiments show that the tweet volume and its changes in time can be used as an indicator of the final election outcomes at the national level and macro areas.
