Posted on 11/15/2004 4:45:59 AM PST by Josh in PA
Republican Nomination
John McCain --- 21.8 / About 4.6 to 1 (Bet $1, win $4.60) Rudy Guiliani --- 17.8 / About 5.6 to 1 Bill Owens --- 12.6 / About 7.9 to 1 Bill Frist --- 12.1 / About 8.3 to 1 Mitt Romney --- 10.1 / About 10.0 to 1 Jeb Bush --- 8.0 / About 12.5 to 1 George Allen --- 5.5 / About 18.2 to 1 Colin Powell --- 4.7 / About 21.3 to 1 Tom Ridge --- 3.5 / About 28.6 to 1 Chuck Hagel --- 2.2 / About 45.5 to 1 Condeleeza Rice --- 2.2 / About 45.5 to 1 A.Schwarzenegger --- 1.6 / About 62.5 to 1 Tommy Thompson --- 1.4 / About 71.4 to 1 George Pataki --- 1.3 / About 77.0 to 1 Dick Cheney --- 0.6 / About 166 to 1
Democratic Nomination
Hillary Clinton --- 34.1 / About 2.9 to 1 (Bet $1, win $2.90) Evan Bayh --- 13.0 / About 7.7 to 1 John Edwards --- 9.5 / About 10.5 to 1 Bill Richardson --- 8.8 / About 11.4 to 1 Christopher Dodd --- 6.8 / About 14.7 to 1 Al Gore --- 5.7 / About 17.5 to 1 John Kerry --- 5.5 / About 18.2 to 1 Ed Rendell --- 5.1 / About 19.6 to 1 Tom Vilsack --- 5.0 / About 20.0 to 1 Joe Biden --- 4.5 / About 22.2 to 1 Howard Dean --- 3.8 / About 26.3 to 1 Harold Ford --- 3.1 / About 32.3 to 1 Wesley Clark --- 2.7 / About 37.0 to 1 Patrick Leahy --- 2.5 / About 40.0 to 1 Joseph Lieberman --- 2.2 / About 45.5 to 1 Barack Obama --- 1.9 / About 52.6 to 1
I think you guys are way off,.
I think McCain is a bargain right now. I personally wouldn't vote for him in the primary, but I wouldn't be disgusted if he gets the nomination, like alot of people around here would be.
Guiliani and Schwarzenegger are not winning Iowa or South Carolina GOP primaries. I don't think they can win it.
My 2nd favorite favorite is the "winter episode" but then again, I'm cracked.
That being said.. I would vote for McCain before I would vote for Arnold or Rudy!!
Ummmm, Evan Bayh, the popular two-term governor of Indiana and current Senator, is from an extremely conservative state. Indiana went overwhelmingly for Bush, has a Republican governor, Senate and House, and has 7 of its 9 members of Congress from the GOP. In fact. of the three incumbents defeated this year nationally (if you exclude the Texas gerrymander victories), one, Baron Hill, was a Democrat from Indiana.
Despite all of this, Bayh got 62% of the vote two weeks ago for another term. That means an incredible number of Hoosiers who voted for Bush also voted for Bayh.
He is a Henry Jackson type Democrat in a very Red state.
The absence of Breseden, Warner and Easley from the Democratic listings makes no sense. At least one of them will get in, and probably two. Particularly perplexing when the list includes Dodd, Biden and Lieberman, none of whom is likely to get in, or last past January '08 if they do.
Barak Obama is far too smart to run before his time, and 2008 won't be it. Hillary Clinton is as smart as Obama, but, unlike Barak, 2008 is the now-or-never time for her. (Sort of the way that 2004 was for Kerry). The real question is whether the Democratic electorate will confuse personal ambition for electability the way they did with Kerry.
traders have a saying: "that's what makes a market."
Evan Bayh is not a politician of consequence. He most definitely isn't going to win a Democrat presidential nomination, and he's not proof of a moderate takeover in the Democrat party.
Tim Pawlenty-R-Gov. Minnesota. Good VP at Minimum. He can smell national office already.
Main reason he won more votes than any other...with the exception of GWB...is that the left was running an "anybody but Bush" campaign!! They would have voted for Hussein just to get President Bush out!
I like him too. He needs to win re-election in 2006 first.
FYI - get your bets in now ;)
There is one FOR SURE bet. It is AGAINST
Arnold Schwarzenegger. He can not be president.
McCain would be very dangerous to our nation's security. He is much too hot head to control our nuclear weapons.
But what record is Gore going to run on? He used to be a vice president that lost? What is on his resume lately except giving ranting shrieking speeches? Same thing with John Edwards. His resume says he is an out of work trail lawyer who also would have lost his senate seat had he not tried and failed to become vp?
I am from MS and voted for Haley but come on have you heard the man talk? Good grief....he is a lobbyist first and foremost. He isn't exactly setting the state on fire down here!
Agree..
People betting on Edwards are nuts IMO.. I might get in there and short him. There's noway he gets the nomination.
Gore is known, he's out there screeching, he has a better shot than Edwards.
About 3.6 to 1 (etal).
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