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Romney’s Intrade Stock: Ready for a Bull Run?

After a bad month and a Hail Mary VP pick, the markets may have good news for Mitt Romney. Alex Klein reports on new election data analysis.

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What if there were a magic market that could foretell the political future – a digital trading floor filled with expert investors, all betting big bucks on election contracts, forward-looking “stocks” whose prices gave exact odds on a cloudy campaign?

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There isn’t.

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