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Londoners (among them many faithful Midas Oracle readers) go voting today. Spot, in the first chart, that British political betting expert Mike Smithson serves some (IMPLIED) PROBABILITIES EXPRESSED IN PERCENTAGES to his readers —and not those fu***ng fractional odds, or those equally fu***ng digital / decimal odds.

- Boris Johnson, next mayor of London: – RELATED: BetFair’s “percentage vote share” prediction markets are illiquid, alas. – BetFair blog’s London page — Tabloid style. I don’t like it much. I think politics should be treated more seriously. Mike … Continue reading

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To build their “Next Mayor of London” chart widget, the smart asses at BetFair-TradeFair chose to use the most hated web technology —Flash.

- – - Deluxe Corp. Flash + Usability @ Google Search Jakob Nielsen (world’s #1 Internet usability expert) Flash: 99% Bad (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) In usability tests of 46 Flash applications, we identified several basic issues related to Web-based functionality’s … Continue reading

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How BetFair screw up the “Next Mayor Of London” embeddable, enriched, compound chart widget —BIG TIME

- PUT YOUR MOUSE CURSOR ON ONE OF THE WHITE DOTS PRESENT ON THE CHART, AND SPOT THE POP-UP MESSAGE. – IF YOU’RE READING THIS FROM WITHIN YOUR FEED READER, GO TO THE BLOG POST, ON THE MIDAS ORACLE WEBSITE, … Continue reading

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The best headline of the day –post Michigan

From the Los Angeles Times: Ron Paul, Dr. No-body, beats Rudy and Fred –again. Well, he’s hanging in there. Not only that, but Rep. Ron Paul thumped two reputed Republican heavyweights in the Michigan primary — former Sen. Fred Thompson … Continue reading

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InTrade-TradeSports are fucking up contracts, once again.

Once again. I have been inundated with complaints from InTrade traders, since Christmas. Here’s the problem. InTrade traders tell me that the expiration dates for the Bloomberg and Gore announcement contracts have been extended —at InTrade’s whim. The contract statements, … Continue reading

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My understanding was that she wasn’t Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, so I don’t know exactly what experiences she’s claiming.

Barak Obama on Hillary Clinton. Everybody laughed. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd (in a November column) continues: Hillary [Clinton] did not show good judgment in her areas of influence — the legal fiefdom, health care and running oppo-campaigns against … Continue reading

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Michael Bloomberg, the New York City mayor, wants to shut down the city’s Off-Track Betting parlors.

The 60 OTB offices (aimed at US horse racing bettors) rake in $1 billion a year.

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Michael Bloomberg for US President??

Michael Bloomberg to run as Independent in 2008 Previous: Under this hypothetical scenario, the money would support a targeted advertising campaign to sell an Electoral College strategy to voters. — The McLaughlin Group (MP4 file): MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Issue Four: Back … Continue reading

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The Michael Bloomberg Scenarios

Michael Bloomberg to run as Independent in 2008 Previous: Under this hypothetical scenario, the money would support a targeted advertising campaign to sell an Electoral College strategy to voters. — The McLaughlin Group – Issue Three: New York For Now. … Continue reading

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Will Michael Bloomberg be the 44th President of the United States?

Tim Russert of NBC Nightly News said this Wednesday evening (June 19, 2007) that Michael Bloomberg is giving up his Republican Party membership and is preparing an Independent run for the White House in 2008. This seems in total contradiction … Continue reading

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