Obama Flap Has Little Effect on Presidential Betting OddsNo other 2008 US Presidential candidate has come under more fire this week from both his own party (the Democrats) and this weekend from the Republicans (most notably Mitt Romney) than Barack Obama.
Obama said recently he would be willing to meet with the leaders of Cuba, North Korea and Iran in his first year in office, and declared in a speech he would order military action to capture terrorists in Pakistan if that nation's president did not.
"I mean, in one week he went from saying he's going to sit down, you know, for tea, with our enemies, but then he's going to bomb our allies," said Romney. "I mean, he's gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week."
That's an interesting way to put it. But it has really been fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton who's really letting Obama have it, suggesting the junior Senator is "naive" and exploiting the notion that Obama lacks the political experience.
Yet none of this has had an adverse effect on Obama's 2008 Presidential betting odds, which sit pretty at 7 to 2.
"I don't think we are going to see any dramatic swings in odds based on a single week event like this one," commented Gambling911.com Senior Editor, Payton O'Brien.
Betting odds on Obama can be found here
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Carrie Stroup, Gambling911.com
Originally published August 5, 2007 2:20 pm ET
