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Next President of the United States: Betting Odds Update

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 would include any independent or third-party
candidate, is +7000.

RealClearPolitics.com, which has among its most popular
features, a consensus of all the national polls, has hypothetical primary
election match-ups quite close. Obama has a 47.7-44 percent lead over John
McCain, but McCain gets the upper hand against Clinton
47-45.2.

McCain is struggling with support among conservatives.
According to sports
betting expert
Joe Duffy, no political novice either, “Many conservatives
will stay home if Obama is the Democratic nominee, but if it’s Clinton,
it will be as simple as ABC,” Duffy pauses, “Anybody but Clinton.”

Though McCain is the presumed Republican nominee, the
Democratic race is tight, but perhaps not says according to the oddsmakers. Bookmaker has Obama a
prohibitive -260 favorite to be the party nominee, with once-frontrunner Clinton
now at +200.

According to Duffy, Clinton
is a live dog. “The Clinton machine
is ruthless,” Duffy said reminding bettors of Bill Clinton’s nickname this time
16 years ago, “The Comeback Kid”.

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Sportsbook
allows the more general bet of which party will win the White
House. Democrats are -225, while Republicans are +175.

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Hillary Clinton Likely Dem Nominee For US President

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 and balanced in political
handicapping as well.

“This far removed from the primary elections; I do not
remember a non-incumbent who was this close to being a betting lock” says the sports
betting expert
of Mrs. Clinton.

BetUs
Sportsbook
lists Barack Obama next at +190. The only potential presidential
candidate who could beat Clinton
for the Democratic nomination is Al Gore.
The former Vice President under popular Democratic two-term President
Bill Clinton, Gore has not declared his candidacy.

Bumbling John Edwards is +700 according to the
oddsmakers. Dark horses include Joseph Biden at +2500, Mike Gravel at +3500 and Bill Richardson at
+3500. Gadfly Dennis Kucinich is given as much chance of winning as Michael
Vick. There are betting odds on neither.

While the war on terror is the main issue in the campaign,
let’s hope the winner has views on legal sports gambling that are in the same
camp as Ron Paul, another dark, dark horse presidential hopeful or even in tune
with the pro online gambling views of Libertarian Wayne Root.

Root, a former employee of Jim Feist, owns a sports
betting site.