On September 26, 2004 the "futures" on John Kerry were at rock bottom...
That was the day to BUY... damn it! For about .29 I could have locked in with a winner and taken home a few bucks for all of this electioneering. GWB shares were at their all-time high of .74 and that was the day to sell GWB short - just like he's done to the rest of us.

You can track and invest in this market on-line at the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business Web site: IEM 2004 US Presidential Winner Takes All Market.

If you wish to check the odds and place a traditional bet then go to BetFair.com... Click on "Special Bets," then "USA," then "Politics," then "US President 2004," then "Winning Party." Total bets matched so far as of this posting: $2,622,291.

The last laugh...
Vice-president Dick Chaney encouraged last night's debate listeners to check the facts on Haliburton at the Annenburg FactCheck Web site. Too bad he sent them to FactCheck.com instead of FactCheck.org - because Web surfers who type in the URL Cheney suggests are met with advice from George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist, who explains "Why we Must not re-elect President Bush."

Meanwhile... FactCheck.org says
Getting it wrong about combat pay, Halliburton, and FactCheck.org
"Cheney wrongly implied that FactCheck had defended his tenure as CEO of Halliburton Co., and the vice president even got our name wrong. He overstated matters when he said Edwards voted "for the war" and "to commit the troops, to send them to war." He exaggerated the number of times Kerry has voted to raise taxes, and puffed up the number of small business owners who would see a tax increase under Kerry's proposals."

"Edwards falsely claimed the administration "lobbied the Congress" to cut the combat pay of troops in Iraq, something the White House never supported, and he used misleading numbers about jobs."

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