{"id":1375,"date":"2008-02-15T15:53:19","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T20:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/next-president-of-the-united-states-betting-odds-update\/"},"modified":"2008-02-15T15:53:19","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T20:53:19","slug":"next-president-of-the-united-states-betting-odds-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/next-president-of-the-united-states-betting-odds-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Next President of the United States: Betting Odds Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'><\/p>\n<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The Potomac Primaries and of course Super Tuesday results<br \/>\ntaken into account. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookmaker.com\/?cmpid=5999\">Bookmaker<\/a><br \/>\nhas Barack Obama as the betting favorite to be elected President of the <st1:country-region><st1:place>United<br \/>\nStates<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> in the 2008 Presidential Election. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Obama is <st1:metricconverter ProductID=\"-110 in\">-110 in<\/st1:metricconverter><br \/>\nthe POTUS race. Fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton is +205, while Republican John<br \/>\nMcCain is +220. The field, which would include any independent or third-party<br \/>\ncandidate, is +7000. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>RealClearPolitics.com, which has among its most popular<br \/>\nfeatures, a consensus of all the national polls, has hypothetical primary<br \/>\nelection match-ups quite close. Obama has a 47.7-44 percent lead over John<br \/>\nMcCain, but McCain gets the upper hand against <st1:City><st1:place>Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\n47-45.2. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>McCain is struggling with support among conservatives.<br \/>\nAccording to <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Articles&amp;ArticleID=105\">sports<br \/>\nbetting expert<\/a> Joe Duffy, no political novice either, \u201cMany conservatives<br \/>\nwill stay home if Obama is the Democratic nominee, but if it\u2019s <st1:City><st1:place>Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>,<br \/>\nit will be as simple as ABC,\u201d Duffy pauses, \u201cAnybody but <st1:City><st1:place>Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>.\u201d<br \/>\n<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Though McCain is the presumed Republican nominee, the<br \/>\nDemocratic race is tight, but perhaps not says according to the oddsmakers. <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.bookmaker.com\/?cmpid=5999\">Bookmaker<\/a> has Obama a<br \/>\nprohibitive -260 favorite to be the party nominee, with once-frontrunner <st1:City><st1:place>Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\nnow at +200. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>According to Duffy, <st1:City><st1:place>Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\nis a live dog. \u201cThe <st1:City><st1:place>Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> machine<br \/>\nis ruthless,\u201d Duffy said reminding bettors of Bill Clinton\u2019s nickname this time<br \/>\n16 years ago, \u201cThe Comeback Kid\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/10499\/sportsbook\/\">BetUs<br \/>\nSportsbook<\/a> allows the more general bet of which party will win the White<br \/>\nHouse. Democrats are -225, while Republicans are +175. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Follow <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=98\">American Idol<br \/>\nbetting<\/a>, updated <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=97\"><span class=SpellE>POTUS<\/span><br \/>\nbetting odds<\/a> and more on <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span\nstyle='color:blue'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a><\/span><\/b><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>The Potomac Primaries and of course Super Tuesday results taken into account. Bookmaker has Barack Obama as the betting favorite to be elected President of the United States in the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama is -110 in the POTUS race. Fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton is +205, while Republican John McCain is +220. The field, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/next-president-of-the-united-states-betting-odds-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Next President of the United States: Betting Odds Update<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[67,208,207,209],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-john-mccain","tag-obama","tag-potus-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","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=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}