Posted on 10/09/2006 8:17:03 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
Even AFTER tonight's Denver win over Baltimore, there are still idiots with a "vote", like Michael Irvin, who placed Baltimore in the #5 slot of his top 5 AFC teams while Denver was no where to be found on his dumbass list.
As far as I know the bill hasn't been signed yet. And it's not even clear that the bill would apply to tradesports, since it's not really a game of chance.
Online poker is collapsing.
Nah. PartyPoker preemptively stopped accepting US players, but that's widely believed to be an overreaction and most sites are still running normally.
Of course, it is not unrelated to this story that the GOP Congress apparently thinks that online poker is among the most dangerous threats to the nation.
These polecat polls will be washed away by the 7 Nov. poll, the only poll that matters.
Just fyi, Intrade and tradesports are BOTH run by the same firm. Their emphasis is a little different between them, but both sides advise that any punter can participate on one but not both.
I said that already.
.....the stock price simply incorporated "all best known information"....that is why stock fluctuates throughout the trading day...
Yes, I know, I said that too. And when the "best known" information is bad Polls trying to spur momentum for Democrats and Liberal news orgs telling people Foley will cause us to lose 50 seats (they hope), just like the regular market, people panic and react irrationally.
I really don't know why I am having to repeat this. Bad MSM Polls plus Overhype about the effect of Foley = Tradesports panic. No different when the lunatic in Iran starts mouthing off and oil prices climb for no good reason.
That makes these trading markets suspect at best. Absence manipulation, sure, maybe they are fairly accurate. But once Dems start tossing bad numbers into the mix and October Surprises they are worthless.
well its only 5 years spent so perhaps theres time. i still say that the US military just doesn't kill enough people...blowing up empty bldgs from a 1000 miles away impresses technogeeks but not the enemy
Rove's in the tank. He wants a Democrat House so he can get his "citizenship for illegals" amnesty plan passed.
That would be assuming all the Senate races were independent. It would be possible for the odds of every individual race to be 60% against, and yet the odds of winning more than half of them to be 60% in favor. As a scenario, divide the races into five groups A-E and roll 1D8.
If the roll is 1, win races ABC.
If the roll is 2, win races BCD.
If the roll is 3, win races CDE.
If the roll is 4, win races ADE.
If the roll is 5, win races ABE.
If the roll is 6-8, lose them all.
Each group of races has only a 37.5% chance of victory. The overall chance of winning, however, is 62.5%.
No according to the polls the REpublicans are being punished because the Republican leadership covered up Foleys behavior in order to maintain its majority. More than two thirds believe that. In addition, the Republican leadership has shown exactly NO leadership for at least four years. What a bunch of whimps. Where the hell is Newt when you need him.
Thanks for the update, I was not aware of that.
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