18. At the end of 2023, will prediction markets say Ron DeSantis is the most likely Republican nominee for President in 2024?
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This is question #18 in the Astral Codex Ten 2023 Prediction Contest. The contest rules and full list of questions are available here. Market will resolve according to Scott Alexander’s judgment, as given through future posts on Astral Codex Ten.

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If Trump dropped dead, this would be a 3% market.

Still dumping my position. DeSantis continues to find new and exciting ways to sabotage his own campaign.

@AlexPower Here's a limit order at 16% :-)

predicted YES

forgot about a m$200 limit order :( really happy we have expiring orders now

y’all you are overweighting the current news cycle imho, as is so easy to do with politics. Barely anything has changed

predicted NO

@Conflux DeSantis ain't that guy.

predicted YES

@Conflux There are a dozen different bad news stories, with the "let's shut down DisneyWorld and turn it into a prison" the icing on the cake. (Yes, that's not exactly what the story is, but if you have to explain that, you're losing.) It's quite a lot of evidence that, down the road, DeSantis will screw things up more.

there are dozens of bad news stories about major political figures all the time

I'm starting to dump my position in YES. DeSantis sure looks like he is going to squander the easiest path to the presidency in the past 20 years.

The Florida sun shines bright,
DeSantis' star rises with might,
2024, he may take flight,
Prediction markets could be right.

So the theory here is that DeSantis is much more likely than Trump to be the favorite going into the primaries, but he isn’t as good at winning afterwards? I don’t see it. Trump is not good at playing from behind while looking like a loser. This seems some combination of out of date and pure defiance of the real money markets.

I bought M250 of NO to bring this down to 52%.

- Zvi Mowshowitz

Metaculus is at 53%.

DeSantis is currently at 34-35% on Polymarket, and this market will resolve according to future Polymarket prices, so YES buyers should consider trading there.

predicted YES

@StevenK Is it wrong if I prefer to root for the ignominious demise of Polymarket and the rise to prominence of our benevolent Manifold overlords?

predicted YES

@MattCWilson It’s not you, Polymarket. It’s me. You’re great, don’t change. But if you could just, yunno, off and die, that would help.

predicted NO

@MattCWilson In this particular case, it would be awkward because of manipulation potential.

predicted YES