Win or lose the Federal Reserve will still pump cash into the system. Inflation will increase and cheap money will try and find a place to sit. The stock market is a place.
Bonds lock you into a dollar dominated investment that will depreciate with the devaluation of the dollar. If your bond return is 5% but the dollar devalues at 9% your screwed.
Look at a Gold or precious metal chart and its not far off the market indexes. Every major currency is a balloon.
As long as basic building blocks of civilization are at near record lows I won't trust the market. Copper is hovering at $3.00. Recall during a healthy economy copper was getting ripped out of vacant homes and sold.
Aluminum, fuel, steel, lead. Check the prices and past charts.