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Traders Give Up on Hillary

By James Pethokoukis

February 20, 2008 RSS Feed Print

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It's pretty much total capitulation time over at the Intrade betting markets. Traders now give Barack Obama an 80 percent chance of being the 2008 Dem nominee, Hillary Clinton 20 percent. In other words, they give the junior U.S. senator from New York a puncher's chance but not much more. Let the final Hillary haymakers begin.

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