they aren't as willing to toe their party line.

But I suspect the average person wagering on those sites considers themselves a "conservative". So, perhaps some of them liked what they heard from Trump last night, only to wake the next morning to a country that "just ain't having it".

Buy on rumor, sell on news is the usual formulation. But if you are going the opposite way (selling short predicting a decline for example) it also works to sell on rumor and buy back on news.


Rumor had it that Trump would explode and meltdown at the second debate. So the bettors sold him down.

When he had a rough night but not a catastrophic meltdown, the bettors bought back on the news, which was not as bad as the rumor.

Now that all that has shaken out, the market is back to fundamentals and they are selling him down again.

He's spent all of October playing defense. First the tax debacle, and now the Nancy O'Dell audio. His apology rang hollow, and he'll stay on defense for at least another week. By then, it will be 3 weeks to the election.

The biggest problem Hillary had before was that her supporters were not as enthusiastic as Trump supporters. That's done a 180. Most Trump supporters I know are doing so with great reluctance (the courts, mainly). My M-I-L, who has voted Republican since Reagan, has stated she's leaving that line on the ballot blank. Meanwhile, Hillary's supporters (women in particular) are now enraged and determined to see Hillary win and Trump go down in flames.

Now at 88%, beating her previous high of 87% over the weekend

his stalking her on stage, or what legal experts and more clear-minded pundits had to say about the chilling dictator like implications of his threat to jail her.