Prediction Markets See Republicans Losing House, Keeping Senate
People complete their ballot during early voting at a library in the Lake View Terrace neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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Pollsters’ reputations suffered after the surprising outcome of the 2016 presidential election. But bettors appear to be expressing confidence that the pollsters are correctly predicting the outcome of the 2018 midterm elections.
The scenarios attracting the most money on the PredictIt market are for Republicans to lose control of the House and maintain a slight majority in the Senate -- the same thing pollsters are saying. PredictIt is a New Zealand-based political-predictions market.