I don’t understand this fixation with InTrade.
Agreed. Personally, I think this should be limited to the blogger forum. How is this news?
The volume on Intrade is pitiful. With a thousand bucks, I could turn Hawaii into a Romney state if I wanted to.
Given that these folks are putting “money” on the line makes that poll as or perhaps a more accurate sampling of sentiment than some of the crap the Dems have been pushing on us for months.
I think people follow InTrade because it deals with real money. Everyone figures people may say what they want to a pollster but when they are betting real money, that’s what they really think will happen.
FWIW, Romney’s gone on Intrade from 28% before Debate #1 to 44% today.
It is just a curiosity. No one is really “obsessed” with it.