Bookies say Hillary Clinton Will Win Primary and Presidency
This story amused us as we were checking out the news headlines from the casino world.
It seems that online bookies have predicted that Hillary Clinton will in fact become the next US president.
Casino City Times has the story:
The political pundits had all but written off Sen. Hillary Clinton when she pulled out a victory in the New Hampshire Democratic primary. Online bookies, meanwhile, have Clinton winning her party's nomination as well as the presidential election.
Though there's plenty of evidence that betting action has been a more reliable indicator of results than polls, it's possible Clinton's popularity in the books is a fluke.
These days online books are based offshore, and for the non-Americans who run them, figuring out the byzantine American election process is probably a lot tougher than trying to understand Australian-rules football. Those dedicated gamblers who have set up foreign bank accounts to gamble online may also be voting with their hearts rather than with their minds.
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Posted by Russell Miner at January 15, 2008 9:42 AM
I think that online casino is a good business, helping people to earn (and spend) money but I don't think that anybody could guarantee 100% safety of the software. Even Microsoft can't. The only thing they can prove is to show some certificates stating the quality of their cryptography. And if hackers will be from Russia - the soft will be destroyed.
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