Could we know by the end of the day? The screen grab above is from Georgia – one of they states where there’s just a possibility of a Biden victory which, if it happens, could lead to the media at least calling the overall result of the election. On the Betfair exchange betting continues at a fair pace and so far the total matched bets is just short of £500m – half a BILLION pounds. On top of that are…
Based on what we have at the moment it looks more likely that Biden will be the next president than Trump. The balance of remaining votes in most of the key states are probably more likely to go to the challenger than the incumbent and the UK betting markets continue to rate Biden as the strong odds on favourite. He’s currently an 83% chance. Whether this will be resolved by the weekend we don’t know.
As had been expected Trump team are not taking their likely defeat with the normal good grace that their predecessors have shown. In a confused statement the 74 year old incumbent is making threats in an effort to do something that will keep him there. Following the results we have had today it seems a forlorn task especially as Biden is able to boast that he’s chalked up the biggest ever vote total in US political history. The Trump idea…
One of the aspects of this election that has only become apparent during the day is that information coming Biden’s three primary targets, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan has been impacted by decisions of their Republican controlled state legislatures to forbid any counting of the mass of advance votes before the election day. The result has been that the main data coming out has been based on the on the day voting information with the mail ballots being sidelined. That’s all…
Chart of Betfair market from Betdata.io. Total amount of bets matched on this market £423,561,338
It is going to be days till we know The Betdata.io chart tells the story of the night as seen on Betfair where there is no outcome yet but punters think that it will go to Trump. Clearly there are furious battles ahead as results are finalised and this is going to drag for quite some time. An extremely pleasurable feature was the PB election night Zoom gathering initiated by Barnesian. It was really good to reunite or put a…
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