US Election Betting Odds: Scandal Edition - Drug Abuse

Interested in making money from the upcoming US presidential election? Also enjoy watching the reputations of authority figures get permanently tarnished?

Of course you do, which is why this week’s set of betting odds - to see what the next great scandal to hit the remaining presidential election candidates will be - is such a draw. And today we’re going all with a hot potato. A literal hot potato. We’re hungry, OK?

Here are the US election betting odds for a drug abuse scandal, with help from Paddy Power…

Drug abuse - Since so much of the American legal process involves throwing drug users in prison for millions of years at a time, the issue of whether or not the remaining Democratic and Republican presidential candidates have abused drugs in the past should be a red hot issue, but it isn’t. When Bill Clinton was president he sort of admitted taking drugs a bit, while George W Bush staunchly refuses to discuss his past encounters with illegal drugs. That means that these days it’s sort of expected that politicians maybe dabbled with drugs a little in their youth. It’s unlikely that there’ll be a drug abuse scandal around Barack Obama, because he’s already admitted to taking cocaine and marijuana during his pre-politics days in a book he wrote. John McCain probably won’t be caught up in a drug scandal because in his youth the nearest thing you could get to illegal drugs was a slightly larger than average ration of powdered egg. And that just leaves Hillary Clinton. Has she abused drugs in the past? She isn’t saying. And, although Hillary may have the bizarre haircut and unusual sartorial tastes of a deranged junkie, we can probably assume that she isn’t one. Shame. Current US Presidential election betting odds - 8/1

Tomorrow - Adultery! But if that’s too long to wait - or you feel like making more money than you know what to do with - head right over to the Paddy Power US elections betting odds page to see the latest, and best, betting odds.