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If Obama is nominated, who will win the Presidency?

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Obama
78%
McCain
22%
Thu 19th Jun 9:10am PDT
Reason: No option for other, which could cause the market to be voided if neither McCain nor Obama won the presidency
All questions are settled by Hubdub according to settlement info provided by the question creator.

Settlement details: As reported by a major mainstream news source.
If the pre-condition does not occur the question will be voided (as it will if none of the two outcomes occur).

Suspend date: Mon 3rd Nov 11:59pm PST (10 weeks to go)

Initial likelihoods: Obama: 60%, McCain: 40%

Action history:

Created Mon 3rd Mar 8:40am PST by ryanj[Admin]
Edited Mon 3rd Mar 9:10am PST by ryanj[Admin]
Edited Mon 3rd Mar 9:12am PST by ryanj[Admin]
Edited Tue 4th Mar 4:51am PST by lesley[Admin]
Suspended Sun 1st Jun 12pm PDT by ryanj[Admin]: Market suspended as deliberations on settlement occur
Unsuspended Mon 2nd Jun 2:49pm PDT by ryanj[Admin]
Voided Thu 19th Jun 9:10am PDT by ryanj[Admin]: No option for other, which could cause the market to be voided if neither McCain nor Obama won the presidency
All questions are settled by Hubdub according to settlement info provided by the question creator.

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Comments

  1 randburg
I presume the question is: who will WIN the presidency? Thanks.
posted 24 weeks ago
  2 lesley[Admin]
Edited to read "win"!

Lesley
Hubdub Category Manager
posted 24 weeks ago
  3 destry[Admin]
What an interesting reason to void the market. Should we not have waited and voided this market if, in the incredibly unlikely event, neither one wins. I can not find any reference material on a presidential election in which one of the two major opponents didn't win. For this question to be asked with an "other" option we would had to start the other at 1%, and based on it never happening before 1% is ridiculously too high. 1% means that it will occur once every 100 times. If we use this standard for voiding questions then doesn't every single sports question need to written now to include an "other" option?
posted 9 weeks ago

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