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Thoughts on Comey's Testimony, and One of the Most Telling Moments

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Jay C6/08/2017 5:27:36 pm PDT

re: #409 freetoken

If you’re a gambling type, I mean literally the gambling type, the online betting sites have been shifting odds on the UK result.

Corbyn is no longer a long shot.

Those odds can’t be that long given that the polls are closed: however BBC’s results outline says that the actual voting results are going to be trickling in over the wee hours of Friday morning - the 1:00am results, frex, had just 19 seats reported (out of 650). They say it should be finalized by 6:00am (1:00am ET, 10:00pm PT); seems slow to me, but there it is.

However the general assessment seem to be that the exit-polling prediction is likely to hold up: May and the Tories are going to -at the very best estimate - have at most a few-seats majority, a possible tie, or a few-seats minority. In any event, the Tory dream of a big Parliamentary advantage seems to have gone up in smoke: they’ll be lucky to come out of this election with any advantage at all.