political election outcomes<\/a>.<\/p>\nFox News <\/i>Libertarian John Stossel runs ElectionBettingOdds.com<\/i>, a site that utilizes betting lines from London sportsbook BetFair. He said following the surprising Donald Trump win in 2016, “Don’t trust the polls or pundits. Polls reveal only snapshot of current opinion. When a polling company reaches the rare person willing to talk to a stranger on the phone, chances are that person is not well-informed about politics.”<\/p>\n
US sportsbooks are barred from offering odds on political events. But that’s not the case overseas. In Europe, oddsmakers give Trump a 47.8 percent chance of winning re-election. Biden is his closest challenger at 13 percent, and Warren at 12.2 percent, and Sanders 6.8 percent.<\/p>\n
PredictIt <\/i>is a rare exception in the US where Americans can wager money (up to $850 per question) on political events. The online exchange operated by New Zealand’s Victoria University was issued a “No Action” letter by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in October of 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) has emerged as the strongest challenger to former VP Joe Biden securing the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential ticket. That’s according to political bettors who are wagering money on their election outcome beliefs. For the first time since Warren officially launched her campaign on February 9, the Massachusetts Democrat is the favorite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":112040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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