Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

It could never happen, could it?

[Slightly more serious Blog to follow, maybe]

Ok, some of you might not be big on Election Betting, but I insist you read this short piece and watch the below video as it may help your appetite for the US Election grow. Have you wondered why the Barack Obama train has shown no sign of abating? Like a business, the Illinois senator relies heavily on marketing/campaigning and although the below video isn’t officially endorsed by the Obama camp, it definitely has given the male voters a little spring……into action as they get up and go to the polls. There’s no doubt, this video helped Obama secure the key state of Iowa that got the Obama ball rolling. “More stuff like this will be popping up all the time,” Obama said.

Here at Paddy Power we’re very fond of pulling out embarrassing video clips of people, particularly when they involve high profile politicians.

With Rudy Giuliani’s popularity plunging in recent US polls, and ‘Super Tuesday’ fast approaching it seems it won’t be long until the former Mayor of New York calls it a day.

Still, at least he can take comfort in the fact there’ll always be a job for him in the good ol’ US of A. Losing out in the Presidential Race might not be such a drag after all!

South Carolina will go to the polls this Saturday and next Tuesday for the Republican and Democratic primary.

Here’s hoping their choice in picking a nominee to go forward to the Presidential race is better than their choice of candidate to represent Miss South Carolina at Miss Teen USA.

“I personally believe…..” - South Cali’ are in big trouble if the below is anything to go by!

Is he running or is he not? That is the question. And I have to say I wish Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg would ever distinguish the flames of speculation and tell us once and for all!

Why am I desperate to know? Well, should Bloomberg decide to run independently and throw the weight of his millions behind a Presidential campaign we could be staring down the barrel of a very exciting Presidential race indeed!

He’s 50/1 with us to be the next President and even less odds on some of the exchanges.

I have to say I personally don’t think he’ll stand. I think he’s enjoying the attention and silently revelling in all the speculation around whether he’ll run or not, not to mention the beads of sweat emerging on his possible contenders foreheads

Mike, get off the fence and tell us what your plans are once and for all!

In the meantime I hope to hear what everyone thinks and has to say on the subject. And for those of you who think he will – there’s a nice little 3/1 available – check out our latest odds.

Sharon

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Last May the Irish public voted a Fianna Fáil led coalition back into power under the leadership of Bertie Ahern. During the election campaign we teamed up with Bertie Ahern and gave him a bet for charity on his success during the election.

We also met up with European commissioner Charlie McCreevy who placed a bet for charity on the Irish election turnout.