Odds McCain drops Palin as running mate increase according to bookmakers

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by Daba
10744 Posts
hopped up out my bed. turn my swag on.
2 weeks, 4 days ago
1 year, 2 months ago

 

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Before the Republican senator's presidential campaign disclosed the pregnancy of Palin's 17-year-old daughter, bookmakers in Britain and Ireland were offering 20-1 odds or higher on a bet that she would be forced off the ticket, meaning a 1 pound ($1.78) bet would pay 20 pounds. Now that same bet will pay no more than 8 pounds.

 

``While it is rare that a VP candidate gets dropped, it's not completely impossible,'' said Ken Robertson, political betting analyst at Paddy Power Plc, a Dublin-based gambling company. ``Lots of our punters are betting `Shocking' Sarah's days are numbered,'' he added, using a nickname he came up with for the first-term Alaska governor.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080902/pl_bloomberg/azjwbcginwsg

by brucescott
11 Posts
1 year, 2 months ago
I don't think it will be Bristol's pregnancy that gets her off the ticket. I'd like to think it would be her endorsing aerial hunting of bears and wolves in their own wildlife habitat and her power-hungry attempt to fire a city librarian who refused to take books off the shelf that Palin wanted removed (essentially trying to censor literature which is completely outrageous). But if Bush was a drunk, coke-snorting loser with three arrests on his record and he still managed to served 8 awful years in the White House, anything is possible with these conservative fucks.   

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