Please tell me you didn't actually look in all of those pictures just to see yourself.
And something Less knew all along.
Bookies are better at predicting presidential election than polls.
Economists say betting sites better at predicting winner.
With just two weeks to go until the presidential election and most polls putting the two candidates neck and neck, you might be better off talking with a bookie if you want to know whether Sen. John Kerry or President Bush will win the Oval Office this November.
“The odds on our site react to the latest news event immediately, and so in terms of the reliability of our election data we think we are way ahead of the opinion polls which only tend to survey a few thousand people,” said Mike Knesevitch, a spokesperson for Tradesports.com.
Liquidity is the key to the accuracy of betting sites like Tradesports.com, according to Leighton Vaughan Williams, director of the Betting Research Unit at Britain's Nottingham Trent University who has studied how well efficient betting markets predict outcomes of events such as elections.
