{"id":9380,"date":"2012-08-01T11:39:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T19:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9380"},"modified":"2012-08-01T11:39:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T19:39:03","slug":"put-your-money-on-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/put-your-money-on-nevada\/","title":{"rendered":"Put your money on Nevada!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"No, not in some phony-baloney Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> way. I mean, there could be some good wagering to be had on behalf of Nevada<\/strong> were its sports books were to petition for the right (which is theirs, in principle, according to Anthony Curtis<\/strong>) to take wagers on the presidential election. S&G<\/em> reader Greg Askins<\/strong>, who regularly challenges my preconceptions — a healthy exercise, which I recommend — was passing along some recent polling data.<\/p>\n

This caused me to look up the Jedi master of polling, the Obi-Wan Kenobi<\/strong> of number-crunching,\u00a0Nate Silver<\/strong>. Both his “Now-Cast” and forecast<\/a> of the Nov. 6 presidential election give the Silver State an almost 6% chance of providing the tipping-point electoral votes. (Long odds compared to Ohio<\/strong>‘s 35% probability but a lot better than New Jersey<\/strong>‘s 0.3%; the Garden State can never catch a break.) If you turn to Silver’s “Return on Investment Index” — oh, I like this one already — he measures the probability that your individual vote will determine who wins the Electoral College<\/strong>. Yes, Ohio is tops again, at 8.3% ROI but Nevada is right behind it at — ka-ching<\/em>! — 7.8% ROI.** I’ll take those odds! The question, sports books, is why aren’t you?<\/p>\n

** — A lot better return that what you’d get on Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>‘s $22 billion Spanish monstrosity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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