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Alex ‘Keendawg’ Keeney is the host of the Star Spangled Gamblers podcast, which covers the sport of political gambling. He’s made around $12,000 the past two years on metaphoric dice-rolling, propelled by the subtle nuances and peculiar quirks of candidates, issues and campaigns.
I’ve been curious about poli-gambling as a potentially valuable indicator of swings in races, especially as the wobbly polling industrial complex continues to struggle.
Here’s the other thing: Gamblers have real money in the game; Pollster get paid no matter how far their margins are off.
“Ultimately we live and die by whether or not we’re right. We don’t get paid if we’re wrong,” Keeney tells me.
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'We live and die by whether or not we’re right': How to bet on the midterms with Keendawg