January 13, 2010

Bettors take odds on how soon serial quitter will quit

An Irish bookmaker offering odds on how long Sarah Palin will last at Fox "News" says about half of betters believe she will be gone in a year.

Fox announced Monday that Palin has a "multiyear contract" as a pundit. But the odds on Paddy Power are 8-1 that she will be gone by Sept. 1, 10-11 that she will depart between Sept. 1 and Dec. 31 and 11-10 that she will still be on the Fox payroll in 2011.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You can put real money on this (as well as get good information on the market's best guess - a really powerful prediction mechanism) at intrade.

They were offering 56 to 44 a few days ago that shitpile would run 4 prez; I thought betting against her would a very good "investment" (too much work for such a tiny brain.) Now its down to 40 - 60 against. (click to see the chart.) Wish I'd gotten in earlier....

http://data.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/contractSearch/index.jsp?query=palin