The Bookies Have Called It. The Voters Haven't.

Betting markets say the midterms are over before the polls close. Republicans who vote in person today get the only say that counts.

By Clara Hughes

This morning, before most Americans had even reached their polling places, the betting markets had already written the story of tonight. Prices aggregated by the analytics firm BetInt on Monday implied Democrats had a 95% chance of taking the House and a 76% chance of taking the Senate, Reuters reported. Americans had wagered nearly $1.9 billion on the midterms as of late Monday, according to a Washington Post analysis. That is a lot of money riding on a story that has not happened yet. Here is the only number that matters today: zero. That is how many votes have been counted on Election Day itself. The polls are open. The decision belongs to you, not to the