Tag Archives: Democratic presidential candidate

Hedging your political ads on InTrade or the Iowa Electronic Markets

Centrist Messenger: How it works. Centrist Messenger will issue a refund of the purchase price of the advertisement, if and only if the single candidate that you selected as being supported by your ad does not win the general presidential … Continue reading

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Questions to Alex Forshaw

- Please, give me the name of the Democratic presidential candidate for 2008. – Please, give me the name of the Republican presidential candidate for 2008. – Plesase, give me the name of the next President of the United States … Continue reading

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Percentage Odds vs. Digital Odds

Chris Hibbert finally says good things on BetFair, but I don’t side with him on that one. At Overcoming Errors dot com (where the main error is not to provide a link to the BetFair site), Chris Hibbert writes: The … Continue reading

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