Interesting idea, but remember that the market (i.e. odds in this case) are affected when bets are made. I really have no idea how much money people are betting on the election, but unless it's a huge amount (read: super bowl-type betting), putting that much money on the line is really going to...
Finally, they've got a halfway decent article in the school newspaper today:
http://media.www.cw.ua.edu/media/storage/paper959/news/2008/01/24/News/Paul-momentum.Is.Going.To.Continue-3165083.shtml
Some alum wrote in supporting Huckabee the other day, I'm thinking about writing an opinion piece...
I would say that's one weakness Dr. Paul has...he knows so much that sometimes he says things that are too obscure for everyone to understand. I think that if he simply 'dumbed' things down a bit more often, more people would understand his views and support him.
I don't like Fox News either...but their stock price isn't 'tanking'. Look for yourself:
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=nws-a
Also, even if 50,000 RP supporters bought 50 shares each, that would be about $1000 a person, or $50,000,000 total (or 2.5M shares). Their float (publicly owned...