The country remains deeply divided on the question of whether Brett Kavanaugh should – or should not – be confirmed as the nation’s next Supreme Court justice. But now that the FBI has concluded its latest background check on Kavanaugh and the Senate is again poised to vote on his confirmation, the online betting odds that Kavanaugh will secure the 51 or more votes he needs take a seat on the High Court appear to be trending in the Judge’s favor.

Consider the online political market PredictIT, which has been accepting “trades” on the odds of Kavanaugh getting a set number of “Yea” votes during the confirmation process. In the one week since Kavanaugh, and his accuser Christine Blasey Ford, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the price to buy a “Yes” trade on Kavanaugh getting 49 votes or fewer (by October 31,) has fallen from 45 cents to 20 cents. The price to buy “No,” meanwhile, has risen from 57 cents to 84 cents.

Meanwhile, you’d get 16 cents to sell a “Yes” share you already owned; a week ago, you’d get 43 cents upon selling that share. Similarly, you’d get 80 cents now to sell that “No” share; a week ago, you’d get 55 cents.

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The latest price overall on the likelihood of 49 "Yes" votes has declined from 43 cents to 15 cents. In fact, the price on 49 "Yes" votes dropped 13 cents from just the day before.

If the prediction comes true, PredictIt will redeem all Yes shares at $1. Shares in No will have zero value. Conversely, if this prediction does not come true, PredictIt will redeem all No shares at $1, and shares in Yes will have zero value.

The most likely outcome, at least according to PredictIT, is that Kavanaugh will secure 53 "Yes" votes, currently valued at 40 cents, or up 7 cents from the day before. The price on 52 "Yes" votes is now at 22 cents or up a nickel. And the price on 51 votes is at 13 cents, down 4 cents.

Of course, you can also bet on Kavanaugh getting 60 votes or more, a share of which is currently valued at just a penny.

PredictIt was born out of a project at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. The site allows you to make predictions about various political events or elections – besides Kavanaugh, the odds of whether the Democrats or Republicans will control the House or Senate, for example – by buying shares in the outcome, either Yes or No. Each outcome has a real-time probability between 1 and 99 percent, converted into U.S. cents.

The latest price is determined by the most recent trade made between two players. As PredictIt explains, very often, players will want to buy or sell shares at a price slightly better for them, usually a cent or two, than the most recent trade.

Incidentally, if it turns out that no vote is taken on Kavanaugh’s nomination – should President Donald Trump, as is almost certainly not going to happen, withdraws his nomination at the last minute – that will be considered a “Yes” outcome for people who bet on 49 votes or less.

Of course, given all the drama surrounding the Kavanaugh nomination, anything is still possible.

As Will Jennings, the head of public engagement at PredictIT put it a week ago: “Given the nature of this event, and the amount of new information that has come to light throughout the confirmation process, forecasting the outcome has been a moving target. There are few comparisons for considering the odds on something like this. This is not like forecasting an election where you have a lot of historical data to base your projections on.”

A separate online betting site, BetDSI, also suggests Kavanaugh will ultimately get the blessing of the Senate. BetDSI puts the odds he gets confirmed at "-500," compared to "+300" that he is denied the necessary votes. (By way of explanation, "-500" indicates a bettor must risk $500 to win $100; "+350" indicates a bettor must risk $100 to win $350, and thus is considered the "underdog.")

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