{"id":908,"date":"2004-10-31T04:06:42","date_gmt":"2004-10-31T12:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/10\/taking_bets_on_the_election\/"},"modified":"2004-10-31T04:06:42","modified_gmt":"2004-10-31T12:06:42","slug":"taking_bets_on_the_election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/10\/taking_bets_on_the_election.html","title":{"rendered":"TAKING BETS ON THE ELECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here, at a glance, are the bookmakers’s betting
\nlines<\/B><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>. <\/P>
\n

At the moment Paddy
\nPower<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> is giving odds of 4 to 7 for Bush, 5 to 4 for Kerry. The line at Littlewoods betdirect<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> is 4 to 6
\nfor Bush, 11 to 10 for Kerry. At totalbet.com<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> it’s also 4 to 6 for
\nBush, 11 to 10 for Kerry. Coral<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> is giving 8 to 13 for Bush, 6 to 5 for Kerry.<\/P>
\n

ukbetting.com<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> is giving of 4 to 6
\nfor Bush, 11 to 10 for Kerry. The odds at Sportingbet<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> are 8 to 13 for
\nBush, and 6 to 5 for Kerry. At Super
\nOdds<\/B><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A> (click on Politics), they’re 3 to 5 for Bush, 6 to 5 for
\nKerry, and 501 to 1 for Nader. <\/P>
\n

And the betting at Sporting Index<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> is that Bush will
\nreceive between 272 and 280 electoral votes, making him the winner, with Kerry receiving
\nbetween 258 and 266 electoral votes. Ugh.<\/p>\n

Postscript from Hammond Guthrie:<\/b> “One tends to forget the election tout! Is there
\nan Exacta?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here, at a glance, are the bookmakers’s betting lines. At the moment Paddy Power is giving odds of 4 to 7 for Bush, 5 to 4 for Kerry. The line at Littlewoods betdirect is 4 to 6 for Bush, 11 to 10 for Kerry. At totalbet.com it’s also 4 to 6 for Bush, 11 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-eE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}