There’ll come a time when this is no longer news Inevitably the first UK death from the corona virus is a major milestone for the country as it faces an ever expanding total of people who have been affected. Quite a few countries experienced their first death some time ago and it seems that the UK’s only just catching up. Maybe that’s because it has been later to start here? One thing is for sure that is that as soon…
With less than a month to go until the LAB leadership contest ends Starmer moves up to a 94% chance on Betfair – odds that suggest that he’s a near certainty. The contest has gone on for so long and the outcome apparently a foregone conclusion for many many weeks now that it is hardly getting any attention. The big question that will soon be asked is how he’s going to against Johnson and how is politics going to change…
BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren is dropping out of the presidential race, ending a campaign that at one point seemed poised to win the Democratic nominationhttps://t.co/N8NE1MlcvA — BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) March 5, 2020 Back in October Warren was the 52% favourite on Betfair So now its down to the two very old men are not far from 80 Mike Smithson
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This is a market that so far we have not featured on PB – will a candidate get a majority of the pledged delegates? This is the market definition: “Will a Democratic Presidential Nominee candidate reach a majority, more than half, of pledged delegates after the results of the last Primary to officially declare? Delegate count will be taken from The Democratic Party. This market will be settled once all primary results have been officially declared by the Democratic Party….
But the other two, Biden and Bernie, remain It was almost inevitable that after spending getting on for half a billion dollars on his effort to to gain the Democratic nomination that multi billionaire Mike Bloomberg should decide to quit after his disappointing performance yesterday. Bloomberg had avoided the first four primaries in the process thinking that he could join in for Super Tuesday by using his immense wealth to saturate key states with a mass of advertising on his…
And the person he should thank the most is Pete Buttigieg It was just three days before Super Tuesday that Mayor Pete made the dramatic move that has totally changed the Democratic nomination race and undermined the one who looked as though he was running away with it – Bernie Sanders. Looking back and seeing what happened overnight in the 14 primaries almost everybody totally underestimated the impact. For until then it appeared as though Bernie Sanders was heading for…