Politics have an impact of everything, obviously including Bitcoin price too, but it's too diffuse to try to establish a clear paralel between a pump and some political news, it's the mix of a lot of things that have a bullish sentiment and then something that sparks the fire which can be anything, for example a political news in favor of BTC:
you're right and i'm not trying to be a shill to push people to buy
here is proof i sold bitcoins this month :
http://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/791139/637d58fedaffe8d911176490f639c077but if prices rises , divs from investments will raise , so let's go to the moon it's possible ...