The effective altruist case for Vivek. He’ll make the FDA go faster. Everything else pales in comparison.

ElectionBettingOdds.com has real-time odds about who will win the election ElectionBettingOdds.com via Maxim Lott

ElectionBettingOdds.com has real-time odds about who will win the election ElectionBettingOdds.com via Maxim Lott

.NBC News has a 'news story' copying a WSJ report from weeks ago, finding that Vivek Ramaswamy has only voted in two elections: in 2004 for the Libertarian and in 2020 for Trump.

Seems fine. That's a voting record that matches his persona & disdain for establishment politicians

It's good to preserve cash -- even though it's slightly less convenient -- in order to prevent the government from having complete surveillance over everything

The Fox News GOP debate had far more viewers than Tucker's Twitter interview of Trump:

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He’s still got a huge lead, but there’s definitely some risk to Trump in skipping debates.

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This is completely insane.

Biden's DOJ is suing Elon Musk's SpaceX because they only hired American citizens instead of refugees and asylum seekers and wants to force them to give full back pay to non-citizens that they choose to not hire.

Republicans making insane accusations of racism doesn't come across any better than when woke people do it.

Ramaswamy compared himself to Obama by copying Obama's quote.

It wasn't even slightly racist for Christie to point that out.

Tim Pool RealClearPolitics ElectionBettingOdds (from John Stossel and Maxim Lott) has:

trump ~ 69%
desantis ~ 6.8%
ramaswamy ~ 10.7%

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Debate exchange that struck me:

Pence said 'Americans are good people, they get it, it's just government that's the problem.'

Vivek argued, no -- US culture is in a dark place, and we need rhetoric to unite people on common values and what is means to be an American.…

In the live betting odds, Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy keep trading second place. They're basically tied with each other.

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The big winners of the debate were Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley.

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The debate had essentially no impact on the total odds of Republican or Democrat chances of winning the White House in 2024:

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The debate has led bettors to consider Ramaswamy less electable in the general election, and DeSantis more electable.

The below are the odds of a candidate winning the general election *IF* he wins the primary:

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Bettors give Nikki Haley very high debate marks, though she still has only a small chance.

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With the dust settling, bettors say DeSantis gained and Ramaswamy lost.

Post- debate, they're essentially tied in their chances.

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