{"id":295218,"date":"2022-11-12T10:07:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T10:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=295218"},"modified":"2022-11-22T10:24:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T10:24:21","slug":"stossel-election-the-good-bad-and-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/stossel-election-the-good-bad-and-ugly","title":{"rendered":"Stossel: Election &#8211; the good, bad and ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Good: We have divided government. Since Democrats no longer control Congress, they can&#8217;t bankrupt America quite so fast.The Bad: Prediction markets, which I touted as the best guide to elections, didn&#8217;t do so well. Yes, they correctly said Republicans would take the House, but they&#8217;d also predicted Republicans would take the Senate. Polls and statistical modelers like Nate Silver did a bit better this time. They also said Republicans would win both, but they gave them only a slight edge.As I write this Wednesday morning, Republicans have (according to ElectionBettingOdds.com, the site Maxim Lott created that tracks election betting around the world) a 19% chance of winning the Senate.Bettors are still giving Republicans a chance at winning the SenateNineteen percent isn&#8217;t zero; they could still win the Senate, but Republicans don&#8217;t have the 60 to 70% chance that bettors gave them in recent weeks.The Good: Bettors at least adjust their predictions quickly.Last night, while clods on TV still said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Good: We have divided government. Since Democrats no longer control Congress, they can&#8217;t bankrupt America quite so fast. The Bad: Prediction markets, which I touted as the best guide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}