With the presidential debates over and the Election Day a mere eight days away, both the Republicans and the Democrats are pulling out all the stops in their campaign to become the next president of the United States.
The race for the White House—dubbed as the “unpopularity contest”—narrowed on Sunday as Hillary Clinton, who holds an early lead in some key swing states, sought to shake off the renewed FBI probe of her emails, according to an ABC News-Washington Post poll. Meanwhile, Donald Trump, who blitzed western states in the last days of the campaign season, faces a series of accusations that he had sexually assaulted the several women.
According to sportsbook Pinnacle, the 2016 US presidential race has the longest odds of candidates.
During the 2008 and 2012 elections, Barack Obama faced John McCain and Mitt Romney, respectively in his quest for the US presidency. During both clashes, the Pinnacle politics market saw the Democratic winner’s odds only marginally above even money at its longest.