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Intrade.com is a futures market in which people bet on the outcomes of various things such as the results of elections.

According to the current trading prices of the futures contracts, an estimate can be found of what traders are betting will be the outcome of 2008 Presidential Election.

If the traders are correct, John McCain would receive 174 Electoral Votes and Barack Obama would receive 364 Electoral Votes.

If the weighted probabilities of John McCain winning in the states are added up, and then divided by 538, and multiplied by 100, then John McCain should get 199.27 Electoral Votes.

270 Electoral Votes are needed to win the Presidency.

Opinions and commentary are welcome.

1 posted on 10/20/2008 4:18:00 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon
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2 posted on 10/20/2008 4:18:22 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon ("...with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.")
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3 posted on 10/20/2008 4:18:47 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon ("...with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.")
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4 posted on 10/20/2008 4:19:28 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon ("...with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.")
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To: Momaw Nadon

About the last thing I trust right now is the stock market.


5 posted on 10/20/2008 4:20:41 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: Momaw Nadon

More market manipulation.

Markets.

Polls.

BS.

See you on the 4th of November.


6 posted on 10/20/2008 4:22:35 PM PDT by Califreak (As seen on TV: S.A.R.A.H!-Sane Americans R Against Hussein-Obama!)
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To: Momaw Nadon

Who are the members of the Electoral College? How were they selected?


7 posted on 10/20/2008 4:22:40 PM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald (Counter Revolutionary for McCain/Palin)
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To: Momaw Nadon

Missouri? Colorado? North Carolina? BS.


8 posted on 10/20/2008 4:25:38 PM PDT by Harry Wurzbach (Joe The Plumber & Rep. Thaddeus McCotter are my heroes.)
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To: Momaw Nadon
This is a lightly traded market and it doesn't take much money to push it one way or another. Soros and others could easily push it for Obama. The real question I have in this election is how much voter fraud there is going to be for Obama. If there is as much fraud as there appears to be then the election is over, Obama will win. Is there any way to estimate the amount of voter fraud in based on Acorn registrations, etc?
11 posted on 10/20/2008 4:29:58 PM PDT by detective
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To: Momaw Nadon

I believe the WWE more than any of these “polls”. There is only one poll that counts and its on November 4th.


13 posted on 10/20/2008 5:15:12 PM PDT by The peoples DJ
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