Las Vegas Oddsmaker Predicts Obama Will Have a Landslide Loss

[Stephanie]

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let him go folks, vote him out

SNIP:
Submitted by may on June 22, 2012 - 1:31am

Las Vegas Oddsmaker Wayne Allyn Root predicted that Barack Obama will suffer a massive loss in the General Election even though the current polls do not show Obama necessarily losing. Root stated,


Forget the polls. My gut instincts as a Vegas oddsmaker and common sense small businessman tell me this will be a historic landslide and a world-class repudiation of Obama’s radical and risky socialist agenda. It's Reagan-Carter all over again.

Root laid out the rationale for his prediction. He does have a history of successful political predictions.


Most political predictions are made by biased pollsters, pundits, or prognosticators who are either rooting for Republicans or Democrats. I am neither. I am a former Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee, and a well-known Vegas oddsmaker with one of the most accurate records of predicting political races.

But as an oddsmaker with a pretty remarkable track record of picking political races, I play no favorites. I simply use common sense to call them as I see them. Back in late December I released my New Years Predictions. I predicted back then- before a single GOP primary had been held, with Romney trailing for months to almost every GOP competitor from Rick Perry to Herman Cain to Newt- that Romney would easily rout his competition to win the GOP nomination by a landslide. I also predicted that the Presidential race between Obama and Romney would be very close until election day. But that on election day Romney would win by a landslide similar to Reagan-Carter in 1980.

all of it here
Las Vegas Oddsmaker Predicts Obama Will Have a Landslide Loss | Lubbock Online | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

 

[bodecea]

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let him go folks, vote him out

SNIP:
Submitted by may on June 22, 2012 - 1:31am

Las Vegas Oddsmaker Wayne Allyn Root predicted that Barack Obama will suffer a massive loss in the General Election even though the current polls do not show Obama necessarily losing. Root stated,


Forget the polls. My gut instincts as a Vegas oddsmaker and common sense small businessman tell me this will be a historic landslide and a world-class repudiation of Obama’s radical and risky socialist agenda. It's Reagan-Carter all over again.

Root laid out the rationale for his prediction. He does have a history of successful political predictions.


Most political predictions are made by biased pollsters, pundits, or prognosticators who are either rooting for Republicans or Democrats. I am neither. I am a former Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee, and a well-known Vegas oddsmaker with one of the most accurate records of predicting political races.

But as an oddsmaker with a pretty remarkable track record of picking political races, I play no favorites. I simply use common sense to call them as I see them. Back in late December I released my New Years Predictions. I predicted back then- before a single GOP primary had been held, with Romney trailing for months to almost every GOP competitor from Rick Perry to Herman Cain to Newt- that Romney would easily rout his competition to win the GOP nomination by a landslide. I also predicted that the Presidential race between Obama and Romney would be very close until election day. But that on election day Romney would win by a landslide similar to Reagan-Carter in 1980.

all of it here
Las Vegas Oddsmaker Predicts Obama Will Have a Landslide Loss | Lubbock Online | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

June....a lot has changed since June, you know.....people got to see Romney in action.

 

[2RightsMakeLeft]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure those numbers have changed by now. But, love that we can bet on anything!

 

[Stephanie]

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let him go folks, vote him out

SNIP:
Submitted by may on June 22, 2012 - 1:31am

Las Vegas Oddsmaker Wayne Allyn Root predicted that Barack Obama will suffer a massive loss in the General Election even though the current polls do not show Obama necessarily losing. Root stated,


Forget the polls. My gut instincts as a Vegas oddsmaker and common sense small businessman tell me this will be a historic landslide and a world-class repudiation of Obama’s radical and risky socialist agenda. It's Reagan-Carter all over again.

Root laid out the rationale for his prediction. He does have a history of successful political predictions.


Most political predictions are made by biased pollsters, pundits, or prognosticators who are either rooting for Republicans or Democrats. I am neither. I am a former Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee, and a well-known Vegas oddsmaker with one of the most accurate records of predicting political races.

But as an oddsmaker with a pretty remarkable track record of picking political races, I play no favorites. I simply use common sense to call them as I see them. Back in late December I released my New Years Predictions. I predicted back then- before a single GOP primary had been held, with Romney trailing for months to almost every GOP competitor from Rick Perry to Herman Cain to Newt- that Romney would easily rout his competition to win the GOP nomination by a landslide. I also predicted that the Presidential race between Obama and Romney would be very close until election day. But that on election day Romney would win by a landslide similar to Reagan-Carter in 1980.

all of it here
Las Vegas Oddsmaker Predicts Obama Will Have a Landslide Loss | Lubbock Online | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

June....a lot has changed since June, you know.....people got to see Romney in action.

they also got see Obama and LYBIA

 

[Mad Scientist]

I don't usually look for or depend on Political Commentary by "Jimmy The Greek" types.

 

[Stephanie]

I don't usually look for or depend on Political Commentary by "Jimmy The Greek" types.

yeah but it can be sorta fun

Just think if it happens, whoa

 

[Freewill]

The people also drive by gasoline stations and see the price.

The people also see the unemployment figures.

The people have to realize that Obamatax is going to kick the workers and producers in the teeth next year.

What did they get to see about Romney, he is rich much like most democrats including Obama. Oh yes, his wife rides horses. Something about a dog on the roof. You know real important things.

 

[Toro]

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let him go folks, vote him out

SNIP:
Submitted by may on June 22, 2012 - 1:31am

Las Vegas Oddsmaker Wayne Allyn Root predicted that Barack Obama will suffer a massive loss in the General Election even though the current polls do not show Obama necessarily losing. Root stated,


Forget the polls. My gut instincts as a Vegas oddsmaker and common sense small businessman tell me this will be a historic landslide and a world-class repudiation of Obama’s radical and risky socialist agenda. It's Reagan-Carter all over again.

Root laid out the rationale for his prediction. He does have a history of successful political predictions.


Most political predictions are made by biased pollsters, pundits, or prognosticators who are either rooting for Republicans or Democrats. I am neither. I am a former Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee, and a well-known Vegas oddsmaker with one of the most accurate records of predicting political races.

But as an oddsmaker with a pretty remarkable track record of picking political races, I play no favorites. I simply use common sense to call them as I see them. Back in late December I released my New Years Predictions. I predicted back then- before a single GOP primary had been held, with Romney trailing for months to almost every GOP competitor from Rick Perry to Herman Cain to Newt- that Romney would easily rout his competition to win the GOP nomination by a landslide. I also predicted that the Presidential race between Obama and Romney would be very close until election day. But that on election day Romney would win by a landslide similar to Reagan-Carter in 1980.

all of it here
Las Vegas Oddsmaker Predicts Obama Will Have a Landslide Loss | Lubbock Online | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

The market disagrees.

The market thinks that Obama's chances of winning are now 77% compared to ~58% a month ago.

US Presidential Election 2012

I believe the market. Market's aren't always right but they usually are.

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

I've been saying the same thing.. Romney's electoral map is a haven of red.. and will stomp Barack Obama back to Chicagoland.

 

[bobcollum]

Check out this Eisenhower commercial from 1952: The Living Room Candidate - Commercials - 1952 - Ike for President

It's not looking good for Obama.

 

[spectrumc01]

Well you can't get anymore unbiased than a Vegas line, can ya? Absolutely no media bias, no liberal or conservative poll bias. It is more than likely, that the odds makers have it more right than we would guess.

I wolnder how close Vegas has gotten each election.

 

[Againsheila]

I predict Obama will win, but not by a large margin, it'll be close.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

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let him go folks, vote him out

SNIP:
Submitted by may on June 22, 2012 - 1:31am

Las Vegas Oddsmaker Wayne Allyn Root predicted that Barack Obama will suffer a massive loss in the General Election even though the current polls do not show Obama necessarily losing. Root stated,


Forget the polls. My gut instincts as a Vegas oddsmaker and common sense small businessman tell me this will be a historic landslide and a world-class repudiation of Obama’s radical and risky socialist agenda. It's Reagan-Carter all over again.

Root laid out the rationale for his prediction. He does have a history of successful political predictions.


Most political predictions are made by biased pollsters, pundits, or prognosticators who are either rooting for Republicans or Democrats. I am neither. I am a former Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee, and a well-known Vegas oddsmaker with one of the most accurate records of predicting political races.

But as an oddsmaker with a pretty remarkable track record of picking political races, I play no favorites. I simply use common sense to call them as I see them. Back in late December I released my New Years Predictions. I predicted back then- before a single GOP primary had been held, with Romney trailing for months to almost every GOP competitor from Rick Perry to Herman Cain to Newt- that Romney would easily rout his competition to win the GOP nomination by a landslide. I also predicted that the Presidential race between Obama and Romney would be very close until election day. But that on election day Romney would win by a landslide similar to Reagan-Carter in 1980.

all of it here
Las Vegas Oddsmaker Predicts Obama Will Have a Landslide Loss | Lubbock Online | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

June....a lot has changed since June, you know.....people got to see Romney in action.

We saw Obama in action too: outright lying about the terrorist attack on the Libyan Consulate

 

[Inthemiddle]

Stephanie c'mon you can't really be trying to make this out to be in any way relevant or worthy of heeding, can you? Anyone who has to use language like "Obama's radical agenda" is clearly a right wing nut. And that he comes from Vegas makes that fact even more likely. And he clearly says that his opinion is based on his "gut." So even if his job as an "oddsmaker" was in any way a meaningful appeal to authority (it's not), he's clearly espousing what he himself verifies to be a highly biased opinion.