Betting on Elections Can Tell Us a Lot. Why Is It Mostly Illegal?
The only such market of any size in the U.S. is on the verge of being shut down—even though studies suggest that such markets may predict elections better than polls do.
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The only such market of any size in the U.S. is on the verge of being shut down—even though studies suggest that such markets may predict elections better than polls do.
Among the lesser discussed subjects of the 2022 elections has been a quiet campaign to elect J.B. Pritzker as Great Khan of the Midwest.
About the last thing left to ponder in the whole affair surrounding the departure of blogger David Weigel from The Washington Post is whether the snark that proved his downfall is inherent to digital media, or just to his generation. I’m grabbing this last point.
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A man, exonerated of a murder conviction through a program John Fetterman praises, was allegedly involved in another murder.