Place Your Bets

While we here at Tir na Blog are 100% non-partisan–we think you're all super winners–Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has begun handicapping the 2012 US presidential race. “Recent events in Pakistan have literally whipped punters into a frenzy with more bets placed on President Obama in the past 24-hours that in the past six months,” said company spokesman Ken Robertson. Things are indeed looking rosy for the incumbent. Power's current odds:

President Barack Obama, 2-5

Republicans:

Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.), 28-1

Rep. Ron Paul (Texas), 33-1

Former Gov. Jon Huntsman (Utah), 33-1

Ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.), 33-1

Real estate mogul Donald Trump, 33-1

Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), 33-1

Gov. Chris Christie (N.J.), 50-1

Former Gov. Gary Johnson (N.M.), 50-1

Ex-New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, 66-1

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (Penn.), 66-1

Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), 66-1

Sen. Scott Brown (Mass.), 100-1

Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.), 100-1

Businessman Herman Cain, 125-1

Activist Fred Karger, 150-1

At 1,000-1 odds, the longest shots were Paris Hilton and Laura Bush.

Wonder what kind of odds I could get on Barney Walsh?