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Welcome to election profit makers, a guide to winning and losing money on the 2016 campaign using online prediction markets.

Today's date is Friday, July 29, 2016. This is the second of 17 episodes in our series.

I'm David Reese, and I am joined by my childhood friend John Kimball. Hi, John.

Hi, David. Today we're going to talk about the Democratic National Convention. We are going to summarize our profits and losses on the bets we made last week on the convention. We're going to

answer some listener emails. I'm very excited about this. And we are going to talk about bets for next week as we enter the general election season.

If you're joining us for the first time and you're confused about how predicted.org works,

we have posted a primer episode.

Look for episode zero in iTunes.

It's also posted on election profit makers.com.

So to get started, let's talk about the Democratic National Convention, which concluded

last night with too many balloons, I think.

Really?

It actually was less balloons than the Republicans had.

I think it was 110,000 balloons. The Republicans had

125,000. Are you serious? Yeah. This is why you're one of my greatest friends of all time

and you're in my personal friendship Hall of Fame because I was going to make a joke like,

hey, John, do you have any data on the balloons? You know what I mean? But you do actually.

Yeah, yeah. It's true. What is your mind like? I don't know. All right. I mean, everyone on the

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