{"id":1290,"date":"2007-08-26T12:46:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T17:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/hillary-clinton-likely-dem-nominee-for-us-president\/"},"modified":"2007-08-26T12:46:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T17:46:28","slug":"hillary-clinton-likely-dem-nominee-for-us-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/hillary-clinton-likely-dem-nominee-for-us-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton Likely Dem Nominee For US President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'><\/p>\n<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Hillary Clinton is the overwhelming favorite to win the<br \/>\n2008 Democratic nomination for US President according to one of the leading <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">sportsbooks<\/a>. <st1:City><st1:place>Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\nis a prohibitive -275 favorite.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  <\/span>Master<br \/>\nhandicapper Joe Duffy, CEO of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span\nstyle='color:blue'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/b>is best known as the top American sports punter and sports betting<br \/>\nhandicapper, but has shown to be quite fair and balanced in political<br \/>\nhandicapping as well. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>\u201cThis far removed from the primary elections; I do not<br \/>\nremember a non-incumbent who was this close to being a betting lock\u201d says the <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Articles&amp;ArticleID=105\">sports<br \/>\nbetting expert<\/a> of Mrs. Clinton. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/partners.betus.com\/members_home.aspxhttp:\/www.betus.com\/ats\/10499\/sportsbook\/default.aspx\">BetUs<br \/>\nSportsbook<\/a> lists Barack Obama next at +190. The only potential presidential<br \/>\ncandidate who could beat <st1:City><st1:place>Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\nfor the Democratic nomination is Al Gore.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'><br \/>\n<\/span>The former Vice President under popular Democratic two-term President<br \/>\nBill Clinton, Gore has not declared his candidacy. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Bumbling John Edwards is +700 according to the<br \/>\noddsmakers.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  <\/span>Dark horses include Joseph <span\nclass=SpellE>Biden<\/span> at +2500, Mike Gravel at +3500 and Bill Richardson at<br \/>\n+3500. Gadfly Dennis Kucinich is given as much chance of winning as Michael<br \/>\nVick. There are betting odds on neither. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>While the war on terror is the main issue in the campaign,<br \/>\nlet\u2019s hope the winner has views on legal sports gambling that are in the same<br \/>\ncamp as Ron Paul, another dark, dark horse presidential hopeful or even in tune<br \/>\nwith the pro online gambling views of Libertarian Wayne Root. <span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Root, a former employee of Jim Feist, owns a sports<br \/>\nbetting site. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> <\/span><span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>  <\/span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><br \/>\n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton is the overwhelming favorite to win the 2008 Democratic nomination for US President according to one of the leading sportsbooks. Clinton is a prohibitive -275 favorite. Master handicapper Joe Duffy, CEO of OffshoreInsiders.com is best known as the top American sports punter and sports betting handicapper, but has shown to be quite fair &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/hillary-clinton-likely-dem-nominee-for-us-president\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hillary Clinton Likely Dem Nominee For US President<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[67,56,69,68,66,70],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-jim-feist","tag-sports-betting","tag-sports-odds","tag-us-president","tag-wayne-root"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}