What Next - Gambling on Elections, What Could Go Wrong?
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Forget polls—are gambling websites the real way to predict politics?
Guest: Nitish Pahwa, business and tech writer at Slate
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| 0:57.0 | com. So can you just humor me and can we explore one of these prediction market sites together? |
| 1:11.6 | Absolutely. |
| 1:12.7 | Okay. |
| 1:13.7 | Let's go to Polymarket. |
| 1:16.6 | I'm sitting here with Natish Pawa. |
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| 1:21.5 | We've both got our laptops open and we're checking out Polymarket.com. Proponents |
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