The ballots have been counted and Donald Trump visits the White House on Thursday as president-elect. It was a wild election campaign and an even crazier election night since the results came in and showed the surveys, predictions and oddsmakers weren’t going to get this one right.
Paddy Power from the UK made it so wrong that they paid out Clinton bettors in advance and in doing so cost themselves $4 million by the period November 8 was finished. Since the polls closed and results started to pour in on election night, books continued to update their chances even as official results were incoming.
And while the oddsmakers got it wrong before election nightthey were eager to call Trump the favorite sooner than CNN or some other news channel was willing to declare things for”The Donald”. From only before 8 p.m. Eastern time before midnight when numbers came off the board, here are some of the greatest swings in the likelihood that OddsShark was tracking. In a year that has seen significant payouts for underdog bettors on everything from Brexit, to Leicester City, to Villanova’s March Madness win, and even the Denver Broncos’ underdog win in Super Bowl 50, a Trump triumph (if he started as a 25/1 bet to win the presidency) fits right in with this unpredictable year in gambling. We’ve reached the final day of the 2016 presidential campaign and there are just hours to go until voting ends.
The FBI announced over the weekend that its research into a brand new batch of Hillary Clinton mails has found no criminal wrongdoing. Clinton’s odds to be the president have improved with this news but her lead in the polls hasn’t recovered to the levels of two weeks back when she was ahead by double digits.
The latest national polls currently have Clinton and Donald Trump neck and neck among likely voters. Clinton remains the favorite to be the next president among oddsmakers but by a smaller margin than in the end of October.
At the morning of Friday afternoon, the odds have moved slightly. The gap between the two candidates has shrunk, but Clinton remains a 5/1 favorite over Trump.
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