# Election bets **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 30, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-bets/470311 "2008-10-30T20:17:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-bets/470311/1 "2008-10-30T20:17:32Z")
What’s the over-under on election lawsuits filed in the week following the election? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-bets/470311/2 "2008-10-30T20:41:44Z")
I’d give you at least 6:1 odds that they’d make the news, if they were to happen. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-bets/470311/3 "2008-11-01T15:08:24Z")
I’m more curious as to what the house odds are on the election results. I know how the polling and EC percentages are going, I’m just curious how gamblers are translating that (and whatever else factors into the odds)into betting ratios right now. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-bets/470311/4 "2008-11-01T18:17:43Z")
Over here, bookmaker Paddy Power currently has Obama at 1-12.