Our Hot Take on the Mid-Terms
Assuming Laxalt wins Nevada, it’s a 50-50 Senate. Again it’s all down to Georgia and Trump.
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Gambling Is Not the Future
Regarding Donald Luskin’s op-ed “The Feds Don’t Want You Betting on Elections” (Nov. 2): Listed futures contracts must serve some commercial purpose, such as hedging grain or currencies. A futures contract for $2 on Backfire in the third race at Pimlico, however, would be gambling. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is saying that electoral futures are gambling, not commercial.