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Big_Ted-
A bit - mainly on the swing states and on a couple of safe ones. The odds on most of them were pretty short so needed to stake ££ to win a little bit. Still waiting for the last two states to be called and the electoral college to be finalised, so hopeful of a bit more to come.
I thought Harris would win the popular vote though, would have done a lot better if she had!
frank9755
I was pretty certain that Trump was going to win and did put my money where my mouth was, so made a few £ on betfair.
I set out my reasoning a few pages up on here a day or two before the election - that the polls always have underestimated trump's vote and that there was no reason to believe - other than faith - that it would be different this time. And that it wouldn't be as close as the polls were saying. I set it out here partly to see if anyone came up with anything I might have missed. There was one point someone made but I didn't think it was enough to change the whole hypothesis.
I believed that Harris was only going to win it if she was at least 3-4 points ahead in the polls and she just wasn't.
I didn't have a firm view on why she wasn't, as it wasn't necessary for my conclusion, but I did believe she was not a great candidate, and that genocide was probably a red line for a small but not negligible segment of the US population.