Vote With Your Wallet!
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- With the reliability of Gallup polls
in question, Sports Interaction is offering another way to poll voters, by
running their own bet on who will win this year's Presidential election.
Currently, 60% have bet on John Kerry to win, even though 59% have also bet on
George W. Bush to win swing state Florida.
Sports Interaction's presidential wager offers several ways to participate
in the election. The online sportsbook allows users to bet on the winner, how
many states will go to Bush, and who will win the key states. You can also
wager if a Supreme Court intervention will impact the election or if a
candidate will withdraw.
"No one knows what to believe anymore," says Ruth Purcell of Sports
Interaction. "There are so many arguments about the polls being skewed to one
candidate or another, we thought the only real way to measure is to have
people put their money on the line. We don't pretend this in an exact science,
but at least it's another way of looking at what candidate people are
favoring."
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/10-20-2004/0002289770&EDATE=Another one if the out of the ordinary polls that show Kerry winning.
Others like the Nickoldeon poll of 400,000 children have Kerry winning by close to the same margin as the betting poll.
This poll has been accurate for the last 4 elections.
Another even stranger poll that has been accurage for the last 8 elections that has Kerry winning is the dollar amount invested in campaign buttons for each candidate, buy this poll again, Kerry is winning by about 60 percent as well.
ON a less unsual note, the latest Ipsos Cook poll has Kerry ahead of Bush by three points.