President Obama bets

December 30, 2008

PaddyPower.com have launched a range of political bets to coincide with Barack Obamas move into the White House.

They have put odds of 2/5 of Obama withdrawing all troops from Iraq in 2009, 6/1 that he will legalise online gambling, 6/1 that the US will capture Obama and 7/1 tha there will be federal recognition of same sex marriages.

This is only a handful of the many political bets you can place on with some of the others being more on the lighter side.

On a related note but not quite as serious Will Smith currently leads the pack at odds of 6/4 as to who will play Obama in a movie about the US President’s life. The bet applies to the actor portraying the President-elect at age 47 in the first major blockbuster about his rise to office.

Currently standing in second place at 5/2 is Jamie Foxx, the actor who found fame playing Ray Charles, followed by Denzel Washington at odds of 4/1 and Eddie Murphy at 8/1. Longer still is Cuba Gooding at 10/1 and Wesley Snipes at

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