i agree with everything you've said in these threads so i don't see what your problem with MY position is.
my point is that it's a measure of public opinion of who's gonna win, which on election night is downstream of results, so - aside from drama purposes - it seems more useful to link to results and projections to track the races. or at the very least, my point is that it's retarded to characterize the betting market odds as measures of probability like some poasters are.
Date: November 3rd, 2026 9:53 PM Author: a New York Times analysis of Reddit posts
Because there are 9000 relevant facts going on - vote tallies in a some Indiana county can be relevant to the California governor's race. Prediction markets synthesize that faster and more quickly.
As an example, the thing I am currently tracking is Dem total House seats. We're not going to know the relevant vote totals in California for a week. But there's enough data for motivated traders to take a position on whether it's going to be Dems 250 or Dems 255.