How a Few Hundred Dollars Could Manipulate Election Prediction Markets
Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Photo illustration: Yoshi Sodeoka for Bloomberg Businessweek; photos: Bloomberg (4); CNN (6); Getty Images (4); NY Post (1) Touted as a truth serum for political forecasting, they’re vulnerable to distortion, sometimes at surprisingly low cost. After a couple of weeks teasing out his candidacy, Matt Mahan , San Jose’s Democratic mayor, officially entered California’s gubernatorial race on Jan. It was a crowded field, but the unassumingly handsome, 43-year-old centrist had a lot going for him. A former tech entrepreneur, he enjoyed widespread backing in Silicon Valley.
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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Photo illustration: Yoshi Sodeoka for Bloomberg Businessweek; photos: Bloomberg (4); CNN (6); Getty Images (4); NY Post (1) Touted as a truth serum for political forecasting, they’re vulnerable to distortion, sometimes at surprisingly low cost. After a couple of weeks teasing out his candidacy, Matt Mahan , San Jose’s Democratic mayor, officially entered California’s gubernatorial race on Jan. It was a crowded field, but the unassumingly handsome, 43-year-old centrist had a lot going for him. A former tech entrepreneur, he enjoyed widespread backing in Silicon Valley.
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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Photo illustration: Yoshi Sodeoka for Bloomberg Businessweek; photos: Bloomberg (4); CNN (6); Getty Images (4); NY Post (1) Touted as a truth serum for political forecasting, they’re vulnerable to distortion, sometimes at surprisingly low cost. After a couple of weeks teasing out his candidacy, Matt Mahan , San Jose’s Democratic mayor, officially entered California’s gubernatorial race on Jan. It was a crowded field, but the unassumingly handsome, 43-year-old centrist had a lot going for him. A former tech entrepreneur, he enjoyed widespread backing in Silicon Valley.
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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Photo illustration: Yoshi Sodeoka for Bloomberg Businessweek; photos: Bloomberg (4); CNN (6); Getty Images (4); NY Post (1) Touted as a truth serum for political forecasting, they’re vulnerable to distortion, sometimes at surprisingly low cost. After a couple of weeks teasing out his candidacy, Matt Mahan , San Jose’s Democratic mayor, officially entered California’s gubernatorial race on Jan. It was a crowded field, but the unassumingly handsome, 43-year-old centrist had a lot going for him. A former tech entrepreneur, he enjoyed widespread backing in Silicon Valley.
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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Photo illustration: Yoshi Sodeoka for Bloomberg Businessweek; photos: Bloomberg (4); CNN (6); Getty Images (4); NY Post (1) Touted as a truth serum for political forecasting, they’re vulnerable to distortion, sometimes at surprisingly low cost. After a couple of weeks teasing out his candidacy, Matt Mahan , San Jose’s Democratic mayor, officially entered California’s gubernatorial race on Jan. It was a crowded field, but the unassumingly handsome, 43-year-old centrist had a lot going for him. A former tech entrepreneur, he enjoyed widespread backing in Silicon Valley.
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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Photo illustration: Yoshi Sodeoka for Bloomberg Businessweek; photos: Bloomberg (4); CNN (6); Getty Images (4); NY Post (1) Touted as a truth serum for political forecasting, they’re vulnerable to distortion, sometimes at surprisingly low cost. After a couple of weeks teasing out his candidacy, Matt Mahan , San Jose’s Democratic mayor, officially entered California’s gubernatorial race on Jan. It was a crowded field, but the unassumingly handsome, 43-year-old centrist had a lot going for him. A former tech entrepreneur, he enjoyed widespread backing in Silicon Valley.
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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Photo illustration: Yoshi Sodeoka for Bloomberg Businessweek; photos: Bloomberg (4); CNN (6); Getty Images (4); NY Post (1) Touted as a truth serum for political forecasting, they’re vulnerable to distortion, sometimes at surprisingly low cost. After a couple of weeks teasing out his candidacy, Matt Mahan , San Jose’s Democratic mayor, officially entered California’s gubernatorial race on Jan. It was a crowded field, but the unassumingly handsome, 43-year-old centrist had a lot going for him. A former tech entrepreneur, he enjoyed widespread backing in Silicon Valley.
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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Photo illustration: Yoshi Sodeoka for Bloomberg Businessweek; photos: Bloomberg (4); CNN (6); Getty Images (4); NY Post (1) Touted as a truth serum for political forecasting, they’re vulnerable to distortion, sometimes at surprisingly low cost. After a couple of weeks teasing out his candidacy, Matt Mahan , San Jose’s Democratic mayor, officially entered California’s gubernatorial race on Jan. It was a crowded field, but the unassumingly handsome, 43-year-old centrist had a lot going for him. A former tech entrepreneur, he enjoyed widespread backing in Silicon Valley.
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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Photo illustration: Yoshi Sodeoka for Bloomberg Businessweek; photos: Bloomberg (4); CNN (6); Getty Images (4); NY Post (1) Touted as a truth serum for political forecasting, they’re vulnerable to distortion, sometimes at surprisingly low cost. After a couple of weeks teasing out his candidacy, Matt Mahan , San Jose’s Democratic mayor, officially entered California’s gubernatorial race on Jan. It was a crowded field, but the unassumingly handsome, 43-year-old centrist had a lot going for him. A former tech entrepreneur, he enjoyed widespread backing in Silicon Valley.
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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Photo illustration: Yoshi Sodeoka for Bloomberg Businessweek; photos: Bloomberg (4); CNN (6); Getty Images (4); NY Post (1) Touted as a truth serum for political forecasting, they’re vulnerable to distortion, sometimes at surprisingly low cost. After a couple of weeks teasing out his candidacy, Matt Mahan , San Jose’s Democratic mayor, officially entered California’s gubernatorial race on Jan. It was a crowded field, but the unassumingly handsome, 43-year-old centrist had a lot going for him. A former tech entrepreneur, he enjoyed widespread backing in Silicon Valley.