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Are you a better predictor than John McCain?
Via Bo Cowgill of Google, via Foreign Policy, John McCain:
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They would do anything to sell politics, these days.
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Foreign Policy:
It’s a clever marketing ploy by team McCain, but why stop there? Why not have the candidate take positions in predictions markets such as Intrade? Wouldn’t we rather know how prescient Senator McCain is about [...]
Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation letter – November 6, 2006
Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation as US Secretary of Defense (PDF file):
Donald Rumsfeld announced his resignation in this letter. InTrade can expire a Rumsfeld resignation event derivative on the basis of this letter.
In the Larry Craig case, where the US Senator announced his “intent to resign”, I think that InTrade should have waited before expiring the resignation [...]
InTrade expired the Larry Craig prediction market too early.
Scroll down the whole story and judge by yourself, folks.
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New York Times:
“As he stated on Saturday, Senator Craig intends to resign on Sept. 30,” Mr. [Dan Whiting, a spokesman for Mr. Craig] said in a statement. “However, he is fighting these charges, and should he be cleared before then, he may, and I emphasize may, [...]
Senator Obama’s statement that kindergartners should be given sex education is the first serious mistake of his campaign, and Republicans are quickly going to move in to take advantage of it.
Tony Blankley
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Excerpt of the rest of the discussion:
MS. CLIFT: There are actually 51 Democrats, although Joe Lieberman generally votes with the Republicans –
MR. MCLAUGHLIN: What do you do with Lieberman?
MS. CLIFT: — and Tim Johnson is ill and hasn’t been voting.
MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Is he an Independent? Where do you put him?
MS. CLIFT: He calls himself [...]
Washington sex scandal prediction markets, anyone??
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt is on a hunt.
The threat this cycle is particularly potent because Flynt has two ways of digging up the dirt: He and his team are plowing through [D.C. Madam]’s client telephone list and, separately, he is once again offering a million-dollar payoff to anyone who can provide documented evidence of “illicit [...]
The Society of Professional Journalists has a winner. –> US Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
SPJ:
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) has admitted that he put a secret hold on the Open Government Act of 2007.
Wikipedia:
Online Gambling Ban
In September 2006, working with former congressman Jim Leach, Jon Kyl was a major Senate supporter of Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 picking up on his father John Kyl’s pet cause. The Act [...]
Let’s unmask Senator Secrecy.
Society of Professional Journalists:
The nation needs your help.
On April 12, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously passed the Open Government Act, sponsored by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). The bill would strengthen the federal Freedom of Information Act, which is one of the most powerful tools Americans have to supervise the inner [...]
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