John Edwards...100 to one odds

[Uben]

Bookmakers in Vegas are setting the odds for Edwards becoming president at 100 to one....per CNN

[saracat]

1. This is great news.Vegas has nearly always been wrong!

[dugggy]

11. Just the opposite is true,,,,professional gamblers make a living

by being right more than wrong.

[saracat]

12. Can't find it but I read somewhere they haven't picked nominees well.

[greenvpi]

13. Speaking of being wrong more than right...

Why did you use commas in an ellipsis? Were you trying to make some sort of comment about being wrong?

[dugggy]

19. You are my worst nightmare!!!!!!!!

Are you my grammar teacher from middle school??????

[MonkeyFunk]

17. my, that's pretty ignorant

they make billions by being right.

[saracat]

18. Like being right about this???????

From Time Magazine, June 11, 1973:


Will President Nixon be impeached or forced to resign because of Watergate? Don't bet on it. That's the current advice of Las Vegas Oddsmaker Jimmy the Greek Snyder. He estimates that the odds are 1,000 to 1 against impeachment and a somewhat less staggering 200 to 1 against resignation. Jimmy also says that the odds against convicting former Attorney General John Mitchell are 5 to 1.

Still, times—and odds—change. In the winter of 1971-72, Jimmy was giving 2-to-5 odds that Edmund Muskie would win the Democratic nomination. George McGovern? A 50-to-1 shot.

[dugggy]

20. Well then Jimmy was right, Nixon never got impeached LOL

[MonkeyFunk]

21. And Jimmy the Greek

wasn't a Las Vegas bookmaker.

And finding an example of one guy being wrong 36 years ago doesn't mean that Las Vegas bookmakers are in the habit of being wrong.

You understand how gambling works, right?

[OzarkDem]

2. So what?

Pretty sad if some people base their choice on that kind of information.

[kimmerspixelated]

4. There's always, always a goon somewhere!

[rwheeler31]

The money guys will do anything to sht him up,it's disgusting.

[girl gone mad]

3. delete.

[Uben]

5. NT

NT

[DaLittle Kitty]

6. America LOVES A Long Shot... I'll Take The Bet...

Of Course The Clinton Nominating Network Would Annouce Such Trivial Drivel.. :puke:

[Uben]

8. It sucks, I know

JE is my second choice, but I would still like to see him get some momentum going

[melody]

7. My friend Carol played the CA lottery at MUCH longer odds than that

And won.

[bobbolink]

9. .

:toast:

[Uben]

10. It can be done

I beat 209,000,000 to one odds and won a thousand dollars in a Long John Silvers scratch-off game

[Lint Head]

14. Somebody will get very rich taking the bet.

Johnny Edwards the Good
Apologies to Chuck Berry

Deep down South Carolina close to Clemson U.
Way back up in the woods among the textile mills
There stood a little house made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny Edwards the Good.
Who learned to read or write very well
And he could sue corporations just like a ringing a bell

Go go
Go Johnny go
Go
Go Johnny go
Go
Go Johnny go
Go
Go Johnny go
Go
Johnny Edwards the Good

His briefcase used to be a gunny sack
Go sit beneath the tree by the railroad track
Oh, the engineers would see him sitting in the shade
Reading with the rhythm that the drivers made
People passing by they would stop and say
That little Edwards boy will be famous some day

Go go
Go Johnny go
Go
Go Johnny go
Go
Go Johnny go
Go
Go Johnny go
Go
Johnny Edwards the Good

His mother told him "Someday you will be a man,
And you will be the leader of this big old land
Many people coming from miles around
To hear you make your speeches when the sun go down
Maybe someday your name will be in lights
Saying, “Johnny Edwards the Good tonight."

Go go
Go Johnny go
Go go go Johnny go
Go go go Johnny go
Go go go Johnny go
Go
Johnny Edwards the Good
:dem:

[NastyRiffraff]

15. But the payoff will be sweet! n/t

[jackson_dem]

16. Edwards' odds to become a senator when he was born: 100 billion to one

[cali]

22. um, not quite.

Are there are a hundred billion people in the U.S.? No? I thought not, and his odds were better than millions and millions of minorities and women.