Paddy Power erected an irreverent billboard<\/a> in Dublin to advertise its presidential election betting markets. Bearing the faces of Trump and Barack Obama, it dared to ask the question: \u201cIs orange the new black?\u201d, in a reference to Trump\u2019s year-round spray tan and Obama\u2019s status as the first black president of the United States.<\/p>\nBut the bookmaker may now have to get someone to clamber up that poster with a pot of paint. When it went up just over a week ago, Trump’s odds were advertised at 3\/1.<\/p>\n
Paddy Power has said that the presidential elections could be the most bet-upon political event in history. Should Trump win, its customers are set to make around \u20ac1 million ($1.1 million), a figure that\u2019s expected to double in the coming months.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t Trust the Bookies<\/h2>\n
Bookmakers are notoriously more adept than pollsters at predicting the outcome of political events. But just this once, the overseas betting markets should be taken with a pinch of salt. In the US, betting on political outcomes is illegal, while the vast majority of Paddy Power\u2019s customers are British or Irish citizens, with no power to influence the vote either way.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why the polls are the only real predictor we have. And they’ve certainly been tightening in the last few weeks, showing a more evenly fought election than the betting markets suggest. A CNN\/ORC poll, published last week, actually put Trump ahead by 45 percent to Clinton\u2019s 43 percent. The most recent, released today, gives Clinton a 46 to 41 percent lead.<\/p>\n
Clinton\u2019s illness is unlikely to help a candidacy already fraught with allegations of deception, which means we could be looking at the most closely fought race to the White House in a long, long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The odds of Hillary Clinton reaching the White House lengthened overnight, after an apparent fainting spell while watching Sept. 11 ceremonies forced her party’s hand in revealing that the former secretary of state is suffering from pneumonia. Irish bookmaker Paddy Power dropped its odds on Donald Trump from 6\/4 to 2\/1, giving the billionaire mogul […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":39562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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