Originally Posted by mineistaken

How do you know they were convinced? When you are in elections you MUST always "be convinced" (= say that you are convinced even if you are not) of your victory. Thats how it works.

Actually it was pretty clear to anybody with half brain that Obama was going to win (besides clear red or blue states there were +- 9 undecided states and Obama needed only couple of them to win PLUS according to the pools he was leading in all those 9 undecided states).

I personally made money betting on pretty much clear Hussein's victory at odds of 1.40



Not that it matters much, but 8 of 10.