There is no reason to hate Intrade.
It is a private company that offers a straightforward service at a transparent price.
If you want that service and are willing to pay their price for it, buy.
If you don’t want their service at the price offered, don’t buy.
Why make it any more complicated than that?
I’m not quite sure I get what your criticism is exactly. I didn’t think that I was complicating any issue. I was merely responding to the poster who said that the IRS was personally coming after me now for having been unsuccessfully involved in Intrade in the past. I think that that poster was having a visceral response to Intrade’s favoring Obama and therefore was exaggerating the topic greatly by suggesting that our government was going to go after the 100,000+ Intrade users in the US (even though this has never happened once in the company’s 13 year history).
By “our” hatred, I simply meant “we Romney supporters.” I think this thread more than shows that there is a lot of resentment of Intrade on here because of the advantage that traders on Intrade give to Obama. As I mentioned in my first post on the thread, I think that Intrade really indicates nothing about the election, so people need to calm down about it, in my opinion.