[Kevmo]

https://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/contractSearch/

[Kevmo]

Maybe it's time to start an Intrade ping list. Momaw Nadon had one for the election, but this would be for ongoing Intrade items.

Google

[SmokingJoe]

Trading on 2012 elections now is like trading on 2012 oil prices now, only much worse. Even early this year, the experts were talking about a $200 oil price by the end of the year. Look where oil is at now.
2 weeks after the RNC convention, Intrade had McCain winning by 5%.

[nathanbedford]

I posted beforeCharlie Gibson and the Katie Couric interviews and I repeat now, the McCain campaign should have presented Palin in a serious and prestigious venue, such as The National Press Club, and arranged for her to deliver a serious prepared speech, preferably or probably about energy a subject about which each could credibly claim a level of expertise. She certainly should done this instead of going defenseless before Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric. The appearance would have gained her a measure of gravitas and therefore a measure of immunity from the attacks alleging that she was an airhead.

It is still not too late. She should seek out such a venue and attack all of the energy assumptions of the Obama position. In this financial climate she will find a receptive audience. The country is not about to go marching into bankruptcy to satisfy the greens. Cap and trade is too juicy a target in an environment in which we lost half a million jobs in November to pass up. Even though the price of gas at the pump in has been significantly reduced, it is still out of reach for most families who are facing foreclosure, joblessness, and bankruptcy in their small business. There is no better issue right now for Sarah Palin to exploit. She can win over the whole of the Rust Belt and the coal mining areas. At the same time she can perform conservatism a service by debunking this global change madness.

One last piece of gratuitous advice: Sarah get yourself a voice coach, modulate your voice, pace your sentences, and stop smiling so much, it makes you look nervous- we already know what a nice person you are. Work on the forensic skills and a serious message. A serious message is not designed to win over the electorate, it is to change your image with the literati who will not be won over but who will have to change their template and line of attack. The serious side is not meant to be a substitute for your winning personality but merely a supplement which your supporters can point to refute allegations on the airhead issue.

Here is an issue, you can certainly command an audience, will you seize the moment? Can you modify your delivery?

[guitarist]

Listen, I like Sarah as much as anyone. When she talks about Trig and pro-life, and energy and Alaska issues, she is tops. But did you see the Couric interviews? Sarah can’t compete in the big leagues without doing LOTS more homework—more than she has time to do between now and 2011, when the race starts. Part of the reason we all rallied behind her is because we had no choice, and the leftists were beating up on her. But she is miserably uninformed on the issues compared to, say, Jindal and Romney, who are ready to run today. Please tell your friends who are supporting her to quit!

[ChetNavVet]

WTF, I don’t get the gist of this thread. Money amounts and what not, but I’m game if you explain. Here’s my take:

Bobby Jindal is Silver, some of the other more Conserve might be worthy of Gold.

And SP is Platinum? No she is far more precious to me, and many others, because she did kick a$$. And if she wants to go forward, well let’s just say that the Plat is studded with the one thing that is harder than a diamond, US. Yes that’s right, You, Me, etc. SP has learned so much being a part of this Prez race.

I like her yes, but I’m of the opinion that we need to let her do what she gotta do... I’d love for her to seek higher office once again. I’d activly spread kick a$$ flyers in my area...

[org.whodat]

ROFLOL, as if it was any importance what a Irish web site thought.

[dreadnought321]

Palin in 12’

[Kleon]

I feel better about Jindal’s chances now that the Supreme Court has thrown out that wacko Donofrio case. If they had taken it seriously, then Jindal’s status as a “natural born” citizen could have been challenged. According to Donofrio, Jindal would be a citizen at birth, but not natural born, since his parents had divided loyalty.

[Kevmo]

Palin is still a bargain at Intrade.

Palin is odds-on favorite to win 2012 GOP nomination
The Hill ^ | 02 Jan 2009 | Bob Cusack
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2157737/posts?page=1
Posted on Friday, January 02, 2009 11:22:24 AM by BGHater