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PB Predictions Competition 2024 – July update – politicalbetting.com

A quick update on the 2024 PB Predictions Competition.
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Obviously I would have won this competition had I have entered.
#EatYourHeartOutAftertimingAnsell
The fault is all mine.
Ben has done an excellent job with this.
Mea culpa
Which would appear in turn to be deadline for Democrats (or anybody else) to nominate their nominees for POTUS and VP.
NEW: Keir Starmer signals Ukraine can use British Storm Shadow missiles to strike military targets inside Russia
First time he has committed to that position, answering @Bloomberg UK question on way to Washington
https://x.com/alexwickham/status/1811059811988955639
Seems I missed this competition. I would, of course, have been awesome. I mean, obviously Swinney was nailed on to be SNP leader come a 4 July election
Both are always impeccably well attired. And let's not even talk about their effect on the opposite sex.
I tease TSE all the time but it's all lighthearted. Your posts seem somewhat personal?
I apologised to Doug Seal in a thread header for taking the piss out of him.
https://www1.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2023/02/04/the-liz-truss-comeback-is-on/
With a .. er .. Mouth Organ.
It's notable that the phrase used was borrowed from Queen Victoria: "Not now, Albert !"
(Stop giggling at the back; we are doing the serious business of consoling @TSE )
I’d be interested in knowing whether Kemi thinks I’m having a “very public nervous breakdown”.
#honesty #unity #wedontleak
PLUS fits my own theory, that Mike Pence is really an exceptionally progressive Muslim (theologically speaking).
Bugger. He was called Arthur.
http://www.morecambeandwise.com/viewpage.aspx?pageid=266
Why is history so inconveniently wrong?
'@BarackObama
Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself. Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight — and someone who lies through his teeth for his own benefit. Last night didn’t change that, and it’s why so much is at stake in November. http://joebiden.com'
https://x.com/BarackObama/status/1806758633230709017
Wimbledon making excuses for why there have been empty seats, including for Raducanu's match. (I applied for tickets this year and was unsuccessful which makes it all the more annoying).
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2024/07/08/wimbledon-empty-seats-court-no1-alex-de-minaur-arthur-fils/
But - all these people supporting him would say that, wouldn't they, until the moment they don't?
Just as Thatcher didn't come out and resign straight away after the first ballot, but said she'd contest the next round, even though she was clearly fatally damaged.
*My track record suggests everyone should bet the house on Trump, to enjoy the brief spell before he absent-mindedly nukes the world to try and make sharks extinct a prosperous one.
Biden is saved at the moment as no Dem candidate interested does any better v Trump than him
Hick after 44 Tests averaged 37 with 6 hundreds.
Pope after 44 Tests averages 34 with 5 hundreds.
And Hick scored those runs against some very tough attacks - the equivalent of Pope facing mostly Australia.
I’m fairly sure he’s capable of discharging the duties of his office for the next four months - but four years ? No.
(*If BTL comments threads populated by a couple of dozen politics nerds count as very public. Narrator: They don’t.)
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/conservatives/2024/07/tory-centre-will-not-hold-john-gray
What a load of tosh.
It would embarrass as a PB header.
To say it assumes facts not in evidence is to be generous. It’s just a splenetic recitation of what seems to be his own political grudges. If that’s one of our foremost public intellectuals, heaven help us.
You seem to have a steer on things, more so than most so it would be interesting if you could see any pattern.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starmer_ministry
Note that (officially anyway) parliamentary private secretaries to ministers (the unpaid peanut gallery of the "payroll vote") have NOT been chosen.
PLUS the vital post of Second Church Estates Commissioner is STILL unfilled?!?
The Dems are condemning the rest of the world to Trump 2.0 chaos and danger because they don't want to upset an old man and his stupidly ambitious wife.
The NY Times opinion writers and board all have it right.
I'm fucking
I do have some standards, okay they are lower than everybody else’s but I do have them.
I haven't a clue what Suella is going. She used to have a reputation for being lovely when she first entered politics, and I fear she's playing up to a caricature- possibly accentuated by social media.
Now that’s just telling a man in his late 70’s he can’t drive. Imagine telling the most powerful man on the planet that he’s not mentally capable to carry on being the most powerful man on the planet.
If you have any dissenters who take his side it will make it a million times harder with their enabling. There is pride, incomprehension, a loss of reason anyway and frankly the whole emotional acceptance that you are on effectively a death spiral and the end of being “you”. Let’s hope he can be persuaded without being humiliated.
And it distracts from how barmy Trump also is, and how much more dangerous he is.
Kemi should just ignore it and not rise to it.
He then loses in November.
Biden tied with Trump in two way head to head.
The next best Democrat is Gore - Trump +5 vs Gore.
Trump +6 vs Harris.
Trump +7 vs Clinton.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/
https://x.com/channel4news/status/1811069277086097878
A bright young thing like Buttigieg or a unifier like Michelle Obama might, but we're getting into fantasy here - like Richard Branson leading the Tories or David Attenborough being speaker.
Redfield:
Biden 42% Trump 43%
Harris 37% Trump 44%
Yougov:
Biden 40% Trump 43%
Harris 38% Trump 42%
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/
Emerson:
President Biden: 46% Trump 43% Biden, 11% undecided
Vice President Kamala Harris: 49% Trump, 43% Harris, 8% undecided
Senator Bernie Sanders: 48% Trump, 42% Sanders, 10% undecided
California Governor Gavin Newsom: 48% Trump, 40% Newsom, 12% undecided
Former Vice President Al Gore: 47% Trump, 42% Gore, 11% undecided
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: 48% Trump, 41% Clinton, 11% undecided
Senator Elizabeth Warren: 49% Trump, 39% Warren, 13% undecided
Secretary of State Pete Buttigieg: 49% Trump, 39% Buttigieg, 12% undecided
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro: 46% Trump, 38% Shapiro, 16% undecided
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer: 48% Trump, 38% Whitmer, 15% undecided
https://emersoncollegepolling.com/july-2024-national-poll-trump-46-biden-43/
However many bluewall MPs and candidates were defeated too so whether the ERG and their wing have enough to get to 60 is debateable but not impossible
"The problem the Tories have is that they are ridiculously addicted to Drama. I think because of all of the bonkersness that they foisted on the country since 2016. They just love this stuff. The squabbles, the leaking, the arguments, the recriminations. They can’t get enough of it.
They run the party like a soap opera. Until they realise that people are really not very impressed with this sh*t, to put it bluntly, then they are not going to recover.
The fact Badenoch has waded in to the latest Drama does not bode well if she becomes leader."
This. At present, I'm inclined to vote against both.
I want a grown-up who stamps this culture out.
Haley might have got a landslide against Biden or Harris and been a unifying President, Trump won't even if he wins again
I think it leads to a general WTF election.
Currently if Biden is the candidate in November then Trump will win. We all know that. Just some people are too set in their ways to admit it.
- "Electorate, tell your Aunty Kemi she smells of poo"
- "Aunty Kemi, Aunty Suella says you smell of poo"
- "Tell her she does it with the dustman"
- "Aunty Suella, Aunty Kemi says you do it with the dustman!"
Worst. Divorce. Evah.Do you keep him on and hope somehow the other team screw up or you just get lucky with one of your plays or do you bring on the second string QB. Nobody knows if he’s any good because he hasn’t been seen out of training but there’s a chance that if you allow the, on the big stage, with the A team in support then they make that Hail Mary pass and win.
My incredibly tortured point is that we haven’t seen Harris. If she is thrown on now she will have the absolute weight of the White a house press machine, the US media, even if Fox goes for her the Lib US media will boost her to avoid Trump.
If she’s given a microphone and says what she wants to do it might be that a lot of people say, “that sounds good” and others just want anyone but Trump because finally she doesn’t have to toe the Biden line with his policies.
What’s the old thing, never come off the pitch with regrets that you didn’t try everything.
If Biden did drop out they could do worse than Gore, he has already proved he can win at least the popular vote and get within a Florida recount of winning the EC. He was also a Senator from Tennessee and was a centrist with President Bill Clinton in the White House so can't be tarred with the coastal liberal tag.
Gore is also 2 years younger than Trump and 5 years younger than Biden