If you don't like those odds, Irish bookmaker Paddy Power said Monday that it was already paying out bets that Obama would win, a day before voters went to the polls.
Related: Wall Street backs Romney
The move was announced in a controversial, some would say offensive, advertisement published in the Irish Times, that read: "Sorry Romney. You're not black, or cool. We're paying out early on an Obama victory."
"It certainly wasn't our intention to offend people," said Paddy Power in a statement. "Our advertising is designed to be bold – we sometimes like to get people talking – and funny".
Paddy Power said it has already paid out more than $650,000 to "punters" who placed bets that Obama would win. The bookmaker said 75% of the money staked on the election has gone in favor of Obama.
FYI just got back from the pols in so Florida. I arrived at 4:15 and waited on line to get in until 4:55. When I was able to enter the polling room, I was placed n another line, asked to show my voter IID and a photo ID. I was then given another card after they logged me in. I waited another 20 minutes to get the 5 page (really 10 pages b/c two sided) and was instructed to wait online to submit my scan-tron ballots into a reader machine. The entire process took almost all of two hours.
Saw some Obama supporters but most of the people in my precinct are Rubio types.
If the target democrat is faced with waiting online, they will probably pass.
I hope I wake up tomorrow and the national nightmare is over.
At the local bar.... ABC news reporting very long lines, missing poll workers, missing voting machines, and missing provisional ballots. Blue outer borough voting districts of NYC
Hell... Leave it to America to fu..something as simple as yes or no vote.. The 50 acres around me are very quiet so far...Tho.At any moment I expect the coyotes to start stirring up some trouble.I dont trust em.
How many of us are here thinking how bad things have gotten that we should have to pay attention to all this after what we have lived through the past 4 freakin years? Sad.
Voted 5 minutes to closing. Very high turnout in my deep blue ward. One guy chanted I entered, "vote blue!" The welfare cases were there making sure the benefits keep flowing.
Ikaika. Thanx for pulling me back from the edge. For someone whose whole estate gets left to 5 girls of friends this is just really serious to me. Ill be fine on my own...i just feel for peeps with kids.I WILL HVE DIED HAVING LEFT THIS PLANET WORSE OFF THAN THE WAY I FOUND IT. Stiff upper lip........Stay the course
White women.....In 4 years Texas will be a tossup. Done...
Sultan wraps it up this am. Until repubs learn to get a machine on the streets like the dems its over.. Its over anyway. Hell your wife is correct. Time for me to worry bout me. thanx you all...
We pray that the conservative sup ct justices survive the next four. The fact that we have more repub governors is promising. Obama will play more golf. Israel will probably get steamrolled. the Economy will continue to stagnate and unemployment will be the same.
The rest of the week will be filled with smug. I've heard way too many leftists tell me "i told ya so" over various media outlets. There will probably be a sea change when latinos and women realize that the DNC gave them 8 years of empty promises.
But what do you expect from the party of revenge?
I know where my money is going and I've been somewhat hedged for this event.
Europe gave back all it's Obama Euphoria - it's tanking as investors see not a fiscal cliff, but the road to serfdom in both the EU and the USA.
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How would intrade cope with this I wonder.
Tom..Intrade may also have prepaid for BHO>
If you don't like those odds, Irish bookmaker Paddy Power said Monday that it was already paying out bets that Obama would win, a day before voters went to the polls.
Related: Wall Street backs Romney
The move was announced in a controversial, some would say offensive, advertisement published in the Irish Times, that read: "Sorry Romney. You're not black, or cool. We're paying out early on an Obama victory."
"It certainly wasn't our intention to offend people," said Paddy Power in a statement. "Our advertising is designed to be bold – we sometimes like to get people talking – and funny".
Paddy Power said it has already paid out more than $650,000 to "punters" who placed bets that Obama would win. The bookmaker said 75% of the money staked on the election has gone in favor of Obama.
Was listening to Hannity... VERY high turnout and long lines in Republican leaning Ohio counties.
I am voting late on purpose as I want to see what the after-work turnout is like in my deep blue neighborhood.
FYI just got back from the pols in so Florida.
I arrived at 4:15 and waited on line to get in until 4:55.
When I was able to enter the polling room, I was placed n another line, asked to show my voter IID and a photo ID.
I was then given another card after they logged me in.
I waited another 20 minutes to get the 5 page (really 10 pages b/c two sided) and was instructed to wait online to submit my scan-tron ballots into a reader machine.
The entire process took almost all of two hours.
Saw some Obama supporters but most of the people in my precinct are Rubio types.
If the target democrat is faced with waiting online, they will probably pass.
I hope I wake up tomorrow and the national nightmare is over.
Good for you to take that time...Im ready to get a drink but afraid i might need to be awake till 2am..Say a prayer folks. Please dont boo God..
Im saving a youtube that will fit perfectly if we can carry this across the finish line.
At the local bar.... ABC news reporting very long lines, missing poll workers, missing voting machines, and missing provisional ballots. Blue outer borough voting districts of NYC
Hell... Leave it to America to fu..something as simple as yes or no vote..
The 50 acres around me are very quiet so far...Tho.At any moment I expect the coyotes to start stirring up some trouble.I dont trust em.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2012-election-results/
Live election map
Ikaika.Its 0-0....That means it goes to the house. Stat!!!!!! Get the cart...code blue!!!!!!!!!!!!!
R&R win in historical 0-0 tie break.
Sorry. Had to go with the first redbull/vodka.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyhaTQseKTQ
How many of us are here thinking how bad things have gotten that we should have to pay attention to all this after what we have lived through the past 4 freakin years? Sad.
It's historic. Either America s snatched from jaws of death, or she passes the point of no return....
Sorry chess, too much drama
Florida a toss up...
Voted 5 minutes to closing. Very high turnout in my deep blue ward. One guy chanted I entered, "vote blue!" The welfare cases were there making sure the benefits keep flowing.
Kind of depressing..
This might be a close race...
Florid awaking me seasick...
my heart is sinking. The asteroid took a turn towards earth.
We are doomed (maybe).
Ikaika:
We are going to become Greece. This is too close. Derbyshire is right. We are doomed..
Ikaika. Thanx for pulling me back from the edge.
For someone whose whole estate gets left to 5 girls of friends this is just really serious to me. Ill be fine on my own...i just feel for peeps with kids.I WILL HVE DIED HAVING LEFT THIS PLANET WORSE OFF THAN THE WAY I FOUND IT.
Stiff upper lip........Stay the course
I am not smelling the veal now...
s/p futures go down -8......
Hell im thinkin 2 whoppers and xl fries.....comfort food.
Where /when do we come across the panhandle of Florida?
Obama is ahead by about 30k votes in Florida. It looks like Virginia is going solid Romney.
PA for the moment is going solid Obama.
This is starting to look like the 2000 election.
Florida has a 3000 vote spread. It is year 2000 all over again.
Please give me nc...va...fla...We can fight for wis./Ohio.
Coal miners in west Pa have to hate Philly.
Jesus. Just thought of brother against brother in civil war.. mine coal. no! dont mine coal.Its our livelyhood . no.wow. scarey.
Only a small portion of Miami-Dade has reported while a good portion of the panhandle has. It looks like FL will go for Obama.
If that happens... its over.
As in Chess. Checkmate
It looks like right now Obama taking both Ohio and Florida.
Thanks for sharing, I will bookmark and be back again
Certified Home Nurse in New Jersey NJ
well...
That sucks.
So what do we do now? My wife this morning stated Obama won for two reasons: women and immigration. It is a new era
White women.....In 4 years Texas will be a tossup. Done...
Sultan wraps it up this am. Until repubs learn to get a machine on the streets like the dems its over.. Its over anyway. Hell your wife is correct.
Time for me to worry bout me. thanx you all...
We pray that the conservative sup ct justices survive the next four.
The fact that we have more repub governors is promising.
Obama will play more golf.
Israel will probably get steamrolled.
the Economy will continue to stagnate and unemployment will be the same.
The rest of the week will be filled with smug.
I've heard way too many leftists tell me "i told ya so" over various media outlets.
There will probably be a sea change when latinos and women realize that the DNC gave them 8 years of empty promises.
But what do you expect from the party of revenge?
I know where my money is going and I've been somewhat hedged for this event.
Europe gave back all it's Obama Euphoria - it's tanking as investors see not a fiscal cliff, but the road to serfdom in both the EU and the USA.
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