Social bookmarking news site Digg.com has created an exclusive section for the candidates, with a section for each of them showing recent and popular news. Here you can see the candidates position arranged by number of “friends” among the site, and their positions differ widely from results of polls or betting odds.
Barack Obama is first on the democrat side ahead of Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel, John Edwards, and in the fifth position, the favorite?, Hillary Clinton.
On the republican side, Ron Paul is leading, which is expectable because of his support from internet users, behind him are Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney and again in the fifth place, one that is considered a favorite for his party, Rudy Giuliani.

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More betting was made on Ron Paul this week than on the New England Patriots, according to Gambling911. It seems that his strong Internet campaign is helping improve betting odds too.
Odds have been also posted by Sportsbook.com for how much money Ron Paul supporters will rise in one single day, December 16, what is seen by them as likely to help achieve their goal of $12 mil set for the 4th quarter of 2007. They are close to reach the $9 mil mark at this moment.

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These are the candidates odds for 11/11/07 as posted by Bodog:

Hillary Clinton 10/11
Barack Obama 5/1
Rudy Giuliani 9/4
Fred Thompson 6/1
Mitt Romney 8/1
Mike Bloomberg 50/1
John Edwards 14/1
Al Gore 20/1
John McCain 16/1
Bill Richardson 45/1
Mike Huckabee 55/1
Chris Dodd 60/1
Ron Paul 19/1
Chuck Hagel 100/1
Dennis Kucinich 100/1
Wayne Allyn Root 125/1
Duncan Hunter 120/1
Ralph Nader 150/1
Jonathan Sharkey 700/1
Stephen Colbert 250/1
Vermin Supreme 800/1
Lawrence Connor 800/1
Don Cordell 800/1
Jackson Kirk Grimes 900/1

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Sportsbook.com group said that they will refund all losses for parlays made after September 1st, but keep their decision to cancel winning wagers. They say the customers affected were warned that they were exploiting a breach in the house rules but they continued to do so. They also say they are open to review every wager in these accounts by request of the customer:

“Any player who believes that the removal of their winnings from these disallowed bets should also apply to their losing disallowed bets can contact us for an account review. We will then contact them directly to review, bet by bet, their account history.”

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Despite not being confirmed as a candidate for the 2008 election, odds for Al Gore look pretty good on betting sites. He’s in the third place among the Democrats, with odds at 4/1 just half a point behind Barack Obama at 7/2, according to Sportsbook.com. Bodog have odds for him at 8/1 while Obama is 9/2. For Sportsbook.com he’s third in the general election with the same odds as Fred Thompson at 4/1, but for Bodog is the fifth behind Rudy Giuliani at 5/1 and Fred Thompson at 6/1. Some say he’s the one who could beat Clinton and his supporters are encouraging him to run for the election. He says is not interested but haven’t denied the possibility.

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