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Betting Market Names Ted Cruz the GOP Front-runner
New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer ^ | December 23, 2015 | Eric Levitz

Posted on 12/23/2015 6:09:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: bajabaja

Betting platforms (bookies) generally don’t take positions on outcomes. They make money no matter who wins.


21 posted on 12/24/2015 6:56:24 AM PST by riverdawg
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But but but I THOUGHT it was BUSHFIORNACARSONRUBIO who was leading in this half witted survey.


22 posted on 12/24/2015 7:04:55 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: RitaOK

Plenty of conservatives have been down that liberal path in their past and are decent conservatives today. A lot of TRUMP supporters get that, have been there, and just don’t care. I don’t care either.

Besides, no one else can beat Hillary, and everyone knows it.


If liberals become conservatives it usually doesn’t take them 65 years...and they usually don’t become conservatives just before they announce they are running for president....unless you are Mitt Romney or Donald Trump.


23 posted on 12/24/2015 7:48:23 AM PST by kygolfman
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To: wiggen
Now put on your tin foil hat and claim it's rigged.

the betting markets were calling Kerry by a long shot up until the polls started closing in 2004.

24 posted on 12/24/2015 7:53:01 AM PST by o_1_2_3__ ( –)
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To: kygolfman

<<< If liberals become conservatives it usually doesn’t take them 65 years...and they usually don’t become conservatives just before they announce they are running for president....unless you are Mitt Romney or Donald Trump. >>>
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So?

I could have voted for Romney if he weren’t wrong on LIFE, LIBERTY and RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. He was, and I didn’t.

Now THAT makes a “liberal” for me.

TRUMP is right on the money. AND, he is a FORCE.
(Like no other.)

The rest are in the political weeds with no hope electorally of beating Hillary in blue states.

Next?

TRUMP, 2016


25 posted on 12/24/2015 7:58:44 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: RitaOK

So you are telling me you didn’t vote for Romney because he was a liberal...and you support Trump because he’s a conservative??
LOL


26 posted on 12/24/2015 8:03:35 AM PST by kygolfman
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To: kygolfman

You have a pulse, after all. TRUMP is no liberal on Life and Liberty and Religious Freedom. THAT used to be the threshold for a conservative— Romney failed it.

It’s an easy cast this cycle. And, to top it off, it’s going to be the only winning one.

While you’re chortling out loud, brace yourself....

TRUMP, 2016


27 posted on 12/24/2015 8:17:26 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: RitaOK

You have a pulse, after all. TRUMP is no liberal on Life and Liberty and Religious Freedom. THAT used to be the threshold for a conservative— Romney failed it.


Romney had a pre-election conversion...
Just like Trump has had.
Besides that according to Trump...Romney’s immigration policy was mean spirited!

Trump is only right on anything because he changed his views to run for president!!


28 posted on 12/24/2015 9:02:38 AM PST by kygolfman
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To: kygolfman

I see you are now out of material.

Merry Christmas!

TRUMP, 2016


29 posted on 12/24/2015 9:04:24 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Impy
The hilarious thing is they claim to hate the GOP establishment more than anyone else, but they use the EXACT same talking points the GOP establishment uses to bully conservatives ("ONLY the candidate with a history of supporting liberal causes is ELECTABLE in November! You right-wingers pushing for a perfect purist conservative will make the DEMOCRATS win!!!") Just look at post #12. The Trump fans could literally take the same arguments they're using to champion Trump, and substitute the name Dede Scozzafava or Arlen Specter.

For people who supposedly 100% loathe anything and everything remotely related to the GOP establishment, they sure have learned to repeat the establishment's talking points to a tee.

30 posted on 12/24/2015 10:01:05 AM PST by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: o_1_2_3__

i remember looking at that site and they had the wrong favorites even when results were coming in. Simply a matter of whether people bet and moved the lines. The only line they set is the original and then it moved with the bets.


31 posted on 12/24/2015 10:49:44 AM PST by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s tempting but I’ve decided not to participate in any Trump/Cruz fights until after Christmas.

It’s depressing to see people fight over two great candidates.


32 posted on 12/24/2015 10:52:16 AM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

33 posted on 12/24/2015 2:17:52 PM PST by FourPeas (Chocolate, sugar and lots of caffeine. Hard to beat that.)
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To: bajabaja

Paddy Power is still going strong

http://www.paddypower.com/bet?AFF_ID=21642


34 posted on 12/24/2015 2:19:46 PM PST by nascarnation
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