{"id":27749,"date":"2026-03-31T12:44:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/31\/how-polling-failures-gambling-legalization-and-political-gridlock-paved-the-way-for-the-explosive-rise-of-prediction-markets-the-conversation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:44:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:44:56","slug":"how-polling-failures-gambling-legalization-and-political-gridlock-paved-the-way-for-the-explosive-rise-of-prediction-markets-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/31\/how-polling-failures-gambling-legalization-and-political-gridlock-paved-the-way-for-the-explosive-rise-of-prediction-markets-the-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"How polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock paved the way for the explosive rise of prediction markets &#8211; The Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi8AFBVV95cUxQNzdYS3JkVXZVUnBIRGZVdDlhblhBRXFDRVNSMm0xZDNUMHJkVU5UYzU3d1pJOEVTRjRWUlFWUHJMMWIzQ3Z5WVRndndYQjFuWHRIalpzQXlhQlRtVGhNUUwwLXJRZnpDQy1IUGRWNkJaZTFaWTV0bTB5YUJQRk42a0dydERPUVRxQVBiZzVQbUxtS2JQX3RtOW1zeWJtbDRRbUdPSGRxSHJoQ281U0hBMFJSZ3JYRlBpQ1g3bjZCdE9SaFhXUk9ZZHpObTJSOGVJMm9JNlB1aXduTGVKTG5IeGhoaElpM0ZpY1VobDMwRGo?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">How polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock paved the way for the explosive rise of prediction markets<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Conversation<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock paved the way for the explosive rise of prediction markets&nbsp;&nbsp;The Conversation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}