Posted on 11/15/2007 3:43:17 AM PST by Kevmo
According to Polls, Fred Thompson Foundering http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925179/posts
Here’s what I’ve been posting lately.
Here’s a recent poll showing Hunter at 4%.
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/28889/republicans_2008_giuliani_28_thompson_19
Here’s an intrade link to the forum site discussing how Hunter might be gaining traction. http://bb.intrade.com/intradeForum/posts/list/1797.page
Here’s an intrade link to the forum site discussing how Fred is at $6, which corresponds to the traders believing he has a 6% chance of winning the nomination, and discussing why. http://bb.intrade.com/intradeForum/posts/list/1805.page
One thing prediction markets are better at — their only bias is whether someone can make money trading the futures contracts.
The Efficacy Of Prediction Markets The Liberty Papers ^ | November 8, 2007 | Brad Warbiany http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1922961/posts
Posted on 11/08/2007 12:21:43 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Fred has lost ~30 points at Intrade over the last few weeks, looks like it’s stabilizing at ~6%.
Thompson Tanking in Futures Markets (Intrade, IEM) Intrade; Iowa Electronic Markets ^ | October 31, 2008
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1919127/posts
The Dropout contract for Thompson has an ask price 2 points higher than last trade. There is no Dropout contract for Hunter.
http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/contractSearch/
DROPOUT.DEC07.(F)THOMPSON Fred Thompson to drop out of 2008 Presidential race on/before 31 Dec 2007 M 6.0 9.2 4.0 0 0
37 posted on 11/14/2007 6:53:53 PM PST by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
35 posted on 11/14/2007 8:29:17 PM PST by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
I still haven’t figured out how to get links to work right when I post an article. For the Hunter Ping List.
It’s a wide open race, might as well back the most conservative man.
According to Polls, Fred Thompson Foundering http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925179/posts
Here’s what I’ve been posting lately.
Here’s a recent poll showing Hunter at 4%.
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/28889/republicans_2008_giuliani_28_thompson_19
Here’s an intrade link to the forum site discussing how Hunter might be gaining traction. http://bb.intrade.com/intradeForum/posts/list/1797.page
Here’s an intrade link to the forum site discussing how Fred is at $6, which corresponds to the traders believing he has a 6% chance of winning the nomination, and discussing why. http://bb.intrade.com/intradeForum/posts/list/1805.page
One thing prediction markets are better at — their only bias is whether someone can make money trading the futures contracts.
The Efficacy Of Prediction Markets The Liberty Papers ^ | November 8, 2007 | Brad Warbiany http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1922961/posts
Posted on 11/08/2007 12:21:43 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Fred has lost ~30 points at Intrade over the last few weeks, looks like it’s stabilizing at ~6%.
Thompson Tanking in Futures Markets (Intrade, IEM) Intrade; Iowa Electronic Markets ^ | October 31, 2008
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1919127/posts
The Dropout contract for Thompson has an ask price 2 points higher than last trade. There is no Dropout contract for Hunter.
http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/contractSearch/
DROPOUT.DEC07.(F)THOMPSON Fred Thompson to drop out of 2008 Presidential race on/before 31 Dec 2007 M 6.0 9.2 4.0 0 0
then apparently smart money is like common sense, it is not very common.
Just saw Thompson’s television ad, it says everything a conservatives of all candidate advocates want here.
This intra trade stuff still does not explain why Hunter has been dead in the water since the start of his campaign.
Even third party John Anderson in 1980 with only a dinosaur media had more in his campaign.
Hunter is dead in the water because the elites in DC and the crooks in NY won't let their political arm...the media, give him any coverage. The more people wakeup to this fact, the more outraged they will become. This is going to be the revolution of the people, not the civil war with guns a lot of people are talking about. It's time for the people to take back the capital with their own candidate.
The “smart money” is on Hunter? Man, how I wish I were your bookie. You’d be putting my (hypothetical) kids through college.
Hunter’s media problem is not a conspiracy, but the fact that the media does not consider the House as qualifying experience for the job. Never has, never will. He’s drawing dead, to use a poker expression.
My evidence? Dennis Kucinich, with more experience than any of the front-running Dems, and nutty positions a lot of the media subscribe to, has the same problem.
Hunter has had 20+ years to create a persona while he served California. He didn't do that. No one knows who he is outside of California.
Interesting.
The reason I am voting for Duncan Hunter is he is sincere. He is real and he is a true conservative. He cares about the country and it’s people. And he is a leader.
Hunter needs a wealthy benefactor.
Someone motivated entirely by patriotism and good sense.
Is there such a person in America today?
Good question.
Spot on!
Good job, Kevmo!
Hunter is dead in the water because of one person: Duncan Hunter.
Huckabee came from where Hunter is in the polls to being an actual contender. Do you know how he did it? By campaigning at Ames and convincing people to vote for him there. He came in second to Romney in what is historically the most important straw poll event for Republicans.
Hunter was there too. He campaigned there too, unlike some of the top-tier candidates. The only problem is that even though he campaigned there, he still finished WAY at the back of the pack. Only John McCain and John Cox (McCain not participating) performed worse than Duncan Hunter.
From that moment on, by failing to ignite his campaign at the ONE opportunity that a campaign like his has to do so, he murdered his own campaign and it has been decomposing ever since.
There is no media conspiracy. The media loves underdogs. They’d gladly pay attention to Hunter in a second if he gave them something worth paying attention to. He hasn’t.
Hunter could EASILY be where Huckabee is right now, if he only had the charisma to sway people to vote for him. He doesn’t. I think you guys know he doesn’t, which is why you all constantly try to browbeat everyone else into supporting him. It doesn’t work that way.
Kevmo, your analysis is flawed.
The reason Fred thompson is at 6% and Duncan Hunter at somewhere just barely above absolute zero is that despite everything else, like Thompson’s weakness over the past few weeks, Hunter’s slight gain in the polls in the same time frame, the price of tea in China, etc. one single important fact rules, and is is this: People with money aren’t betting it on Duncan Hunter because Hunter hasn’t a snowball’s chance in hades of securing the Republican nomination, no matter whether he is at 3%, 4% OR 5% in the polls, whereas Fred Thompson does have.
Thompson remains a much better Intrade bet at $6 than Duncan Hunter at next to nothing.
OR???? Maybe they changed the rules?
Candidates accept invitations to Register debate
THE DES MOINES REGISTER • November 15, 2007
Six Democratic presidential candidates and at least seven Republican candidates will be taking part in The Des Moines Register's presidential debates next month.
GOP candidates who have accepted invitations to participate in the Dec. 12 debate for their party are: former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, California Rep. Duncan Hunter, Arizona Sen. John McCain, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's campaign said Wednesday he was still considering the invitation.
(snip)
Well, life is full of systems that we all have to operate within. If you want to be a politician, you have to do some things within the political system to be able to operate successfully. Hunter did well enough in California politics, but he didn’t do what he had to do to be able to operate in the system nationally.
It may be a good job at something, but as a way to make money it is some if the worst advice I have ever read.
Money placed on an Intrade proposition for Duncan Hunter to win the Republican nomination is money straight down the drain.
Unless you think that somehow, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Hunter will somehow catch fire to the point that he is actually seen as someone who can WIN, you’d be better off giving your money to charity,because you could at least take a tax deduction.
There is a reason why there is no trade in a Hunter drop-out scenario. That’s because its a dead certian proposition, and there are no takers on the other side of the bet.
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