Gamblers think the safe money is on Democrats in the senate

[skipos]

www.tradesports.com is an interesting website were people can bet on political races. I have noticed that when people are putting their money where their mouth is, they tend to favor the incumbents. Regardless, I thought DUers might find the current odds (rounded) on these senate races interesting.

MO senate: McCaskill (D) is favored to win over Talent (R) 3:2
MT senate: Tester (D) is favored to win over Burns (R) 2:1
OH senate: Brown (D) is favored to win over Dewine (R) 2:1
RI senate: Whitehouse (D) is favored to win over Chafee or Laffey (R) 2:1
PA senate: Casey (D) is favored to win over Santorum (R) 4:1

Here is another interesting one
OH Governor: Strickland (D) is favored to win over Blackwell (R) 19:1

[Imagevision]

1. Bush knows he's a lame duck if GOP loses in November

[BlueCollar]

2. He's a lame-ass now...eom

[rfranklin]

4. Perhaps a "dead duck?"

The Hague or a Federal pen perhaps?

[annabanana]

5. "lame duck"

try "duck on ice"

[Phredicles]

3. What are the odds on Lamont (D) vs. Lieberman (R)?

[skipos]

7. As I said

they favor the incumbents.
Lieberman 3:2
The odds were against Lamont in the primary until a week or two before the primary happened. I got in on Lamont when the odds were about against him, about 1:3 or 1:4. The money I made off of that has been donated to other campaigns.

[CatholicEdHead]

6. What are the odds for the MN Senate race?

Mark Kennedy (R) vs Amy Klobuchar (D)

Or the MN-6 race?
Michelle Bachmann (R) vs Patty Wetterling (D)

[skipos]

8. Klobuchar (D) over Kennedy (R) 17:3

That house race isn't covered.

[CatholicEdHead]

10. Thanks, one last thing

how about the MN Governor's race. Mike Hatch (D) vs Tim Pawlenty (R)?

[skipos]

11. Pawlenty over Hatch 4:1

You can look at a graph of the odds over time, and it looks like a month ago it was 3:2, so it has really spiked in Pawlenty's favor lately.

[cynthia]

12. amazing

I can't believe Pawlenty is looking better, it has to be that Hatch isn't looking good enough. Most of us in MN have had p-lenty of Pawlenty. What a tool he is!

[CatholicEdHead]

13. MPR said that Hatch is holding back his funds for a late push

with more TV commercials next month.

[McCamy Taylor]

9. Fascinating. I am surprised the RNC hasnt gotten GOP donors to

start to placing bets to fix the odds.