{"id":39553,"date":"2016-09-12T12:53:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T19:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=39553"},"modified":"2016-09-12T12:55:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T19:55:45","slug":"hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton Health Scare Causes UK Bookies to Cut Odds on Trump Victory"},"content":{"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<\/a> from 6\/4 to 2\/1, giving the billionaire mogul a 33 percent chance of becoming next president of the United States.<\/p>\n

\"hillary-clinton-donald-trump-uk-betting-sports-book-odds\"
Hillary Clinton waves to the crowd after leaving daughter Chelsea’s Manhattan apartment on Sunday. A fainting spell earlier in the day has caused speculation on the Democratic candidate’s health situation to go wild. (Image: abc.go.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clinton\u2019s recent coughing attacks and previous stumbles have created a vast number of rumors on potential underlying causes, which has also improved the chances of two rank outsiders. Former rival and Democrat runner-up Bernie Sanders (18\/1) and Vice President Joe Biden (25\/1), neither of whom are even in the running, are now getting some long shot odds by bookmakers.<\/p>\n

Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday and prescribed antibiotics, a fact that she was forced to make public after apparently taking ill at a 9\/11 memorial service on Sunday in lower Manhattan. A spokesman for Paddy Power confirmed to political website the Washington Free Beacon that Clinton\u2019s illness was indeed the reason for the shift in odds.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepublicans have been pushing the ill-health agenda for some time and there\u2019s no doubt that Hillary\u2019s pneumonia will be used to attack her,\u201d said a spokesman for Paddy Power. \u201cHealth concerns were one of the main reasons that John McCain\u2019s campaign struggled and Trump supporters will be hoping that the same thing could make voters think twice about backing Clinton.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Biggest Political Betting Event Ever<\/h2>\n

Last week, 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>\n

But 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":"\nHillary Clinton Health Scare UK Bookies to Cut Odds on Trump Victory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Following what appeared to be a fainting spells on Sunday, the odds between a Trump vs. Hillary Clinton win have shortened, say bookmakers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hillary Clinton Health Scare UK Bookies to Cut Odds on Trump Victory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Following what appeared to be a fainting spells on Sunday, the odds between a Trump vs. Hillary Clinton win have shortened, say bookmakers.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-09-12T19:53:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-09-12T19:55:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-Donald-Trump-UK-betting-sports-book-odds.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"669\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Casino.org Staff Writer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Casino.org Staff Writer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory\/\",\"name\":\"Hillary Clinton Health Scare UK Bookies to Cut Odds on Trump Victory\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-Donald-Trump-UK-betting-sports-book-odds.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-09-12T19:53:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-09-12T19:55:45+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8c48bf89dc86da77b4d856c7b3b78d77\"},\"description\":\"Following what appeared to be a fainting spells on Sunday, the odds between a Trump vs. Hillary Clinton win have shortened, say bookmakers.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-Donald-Trump-UK-betting-sports-book-odds.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-Donald-Trump-UK-betting-sports-book-odds.jpg\",\"width\":1600,\"height\":669,\"caption\":\"Hillary Clinton waves to the crowd after leaving daughter Chelsea's Manhattan apartment on Sunday. A fainting spell earlier in the day has caused speculation on the Democratic candidate's health situation to go wild. (Image: abc.go.com)\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Politics\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/politics\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Hillary Clinton Health Scare Causes UK Bookies to Cut Odds on Trump Victory\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Casino.org\",\"description\":\"Latest Casino and Gaming News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8c48bf89dc86da77b4d856c7b3b78d77\",\"name\":\"Casino.org Staff Writer\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0853bd574da5b217483afb1fbbee33a5?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0853bd574da5b217483afb1fbbee33a5?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Casino.org Staff Writer\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/author\/corg-staff-writer\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Hillary Clinton Health Scare UK Bookies to Cut Odds on Trump Victory","description":"Following what appeared to be a fainting spells on Sunday, the odds between a Trump vs. Hillary Clinton win have shortened, say bookmakers.","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Hillary Clinton Health Scare UK Bookies to Cut Odds on Trump Victory","og_description":"Following what appeared to be a fainting spells on Sunday, the odds between a Trump vs. Hillary Clinton win have shortened, say bookmakers.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory\/","og_site_name":"Casino.org","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews","article_published_time":"2016-09-12T19:53:39+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-09-12T19:55:45+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1600,"height":669,"url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-Donald-Trump-UK-betting-sports-book-odds.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Casino.org Staff Writer","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Casino_Org","twitter_site":"@Casino_Org","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Casino.org Staff Writer","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory\/","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory\/","name":"Hillary Clinton Health Scare UK Bookies to Cut Odds on Trump Victory","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-Donald-Trump-UK-betting-sports-book-odds.jpg","datePublished":"2016-09-12T19:53:39+00:00","dateModified":"2016-09-12T19:55:45+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8c48bf89dc86da77b4d856c7b3b78d77"},"description":"Following what appeared to be a fainting spells on Sunday, the odds between a Trump vs. Hillary Clinton win have shortened, say bookmakers.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-Donald-Trump-UK-betting-sports-book-odds.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hillary-Clinton-Donald-Trump-UK-betting-sports-book-odds.jpg","width":1600,"height":669,"caption":"Hillary Clinton waves to the crowd after leaving daughter Chelsea's Manhattan apartment on Sunday. A fainting spell earlier in the day has caused speculation on the Democratic candidate's health situation to go wild. (Image: abc.go.com)"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-health-scare-uk-bookies-to-cut-odds-on-trump-victory\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Politics","item":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/politics\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Hillary Clinton Health Scare Causes UK Bookies to Cut Odds on Trump Victory"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/","name":"Casino.org","description":"Latest Casino and Gaming News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8c48bf89dc86da77b4d856c7b3b78d77","name":"Casino.org Staff Writer","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0853bd574da5b217483afb1fbbee33a5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0853bd574da5b217483afb1fbbee33a5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Casino.org Staff Writer"},"url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/author\/corg-staff-writer\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}