{"id":14157,"date":"2020-10-30T00:33:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T00:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/?p=14157"},"modified":"2020-10-30T00:34:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T00:34:59","slug":"deja-vu-big-bets-rolling-in-on-trump-ahead-of-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/politics\/deja-vu-big-bets-rolling-in-on-trump-ahead-of-election-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Deja Vu…Big Bets Rolling in on Trump Ahead of Election Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For BetOnline.ag<\/a>, it’s starting to feel like 2016 all over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the weeks leading up to America’s last Presidential Election, widely-respected political polls and predictive models suggested a somewhat breezy win for Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RealClearPolitics and Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight both projected Clinton’s chances of becoming the nation’s first female president around 70 percent. Other websites were even more bullish on Clinton, and so were the bookmakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“When there’s a fishy line or movement in sports betting, the old adage is that ‘Vegas knows something,'” Dave Mason, brand manager at BetOnline.ag<\/a>, said. “But in 2016, it was the bettors in the know. The oddsmakers make a living being on the right side, but they were dead wrong that year.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Money flooded in on Donald Trump in the weeks and days leading up to the 2016 Election. But BetOnline and other bookmakers worldwide were firm in their position and continued to offer great value on the underdog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump Approval today:

Rasmussen: 52%
The Hill\/Harris X: 49%
Gallup: 46%<\/p>— PollWatch (@PollWatch2020) October 29, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>