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Archives for May, 2012

Current InTrade Pricing Reflect Obama Re-election

Here is the Intrade.com history of the value of President Obama being re-elected: To interpret this chart, price is equivalent to percentage. So, the last trade reflected a 57% expectation of Obama’s re-election.

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Soak The Rich? No, Get Rid of The Poor

Class warfare may be a good campaign strategy, but only if you are counting on STUPIDS to get you elected. Anyone with reasonable intelligence should see through the idiocy in such campaign chicanery. Accept for the moment, my first two statements about which more shall be said later. For an approximation of the number of [...]

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Obama’s Chances

From Reader Bob regarding yesterday’s post on Obama’s Re-election chances comes this email. I am not quite sure how to interpret the odds, but assume from his first P.S. that they are improving in Romney’s favor. Perhaps a look at Intrade, another betting site, may provide some confirmation. “Obama Will Not Win Re-election”. Oh golly, [...]

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Obama Will Not Win Re-election

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It is time to call the 2012 election. President Obama cannot win. He will likely lose big, in a very lopsided election. Pundits will claim to be surprised when the outcome becomes apparent. They should not be as the signs of such a result are everywhere, despite the mainstream media’s attempts to suppress them. There [...]

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Tax Humor

Here is some tax humor, if there can be such a thing: Don’t you wish you had the nerve to do this?? Tax Return  Rejected I got my Tax Return  ”Returned”! I was trying to get a jump on doing my  taxes  this year, but the IRS sent my Tax Return  back!! I guess it [...]

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Political Humor

From an internet friend; original author unknown: A Green Bay Packer question Last year…. after the Packers / Bills game, Buffalo released quarterback Trent Edwards. During the Packers / Eagles game, the Packers injured Philadelphia quarterback Kevin Kolb. Philadelphia then had to play backup quarterback Michael Vick. During a playoff game against the Eagles, the [...]

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