The attention of the political betting world is focused on New Hampshire where a critical phase of the presidential primaries will take place on Tuesday. It is widely considered that the result of this primary will reveal who is to be the new incumbent in the Oval Office come January 2009.

Online betting is hotting up in a contest which involves more than just party political consideration. It’s pretty rare in US presidential politics that the end result is so unpredictable and this is certainly partly due to the unpopularity of George Bush and the Republican Party in general, thus rendering a Democrat win likely. What makes this presidential race more interesting is the previously unheard of candidature of both a woman and a black man.

The involvement of these two people, Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama, a vastly experienced Senator and a figure for change, respectively, digs deep into the prejudices of the American people. Who do they fear the least, a woman or a black skinned man? If Iowa is anything to go by, misogyny rules, and they will prefer the manly qualities of Mr Obama over the feminine appeal of Ms Clinton.

Sports betting fans will note, however, that Iowa also chose Mike Huckabee as their favoured Republican candidate. Mr Huckabee thinks the world was created 6000 years ago and God did it. Furthermore, New Hampshire has a belief in its political sophistication and a treasured history of overturning the Ohio preference so, despite Barack’s fresh appeal, he may yet be shown the door. As John Sununu said, ‘Iowa picks corn, New Hampshire picks presidents’.

On the Republican side, things are equally, if not more, unpredictable. It’s likely that their candidate will emerge from a tussle between John McCain, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. It’s anybody’s guess but, if I were you, I’d keep my eye on McCain.

As Tony Blair gets set to announce his plans after stepping down as prime minister, the Next Prime Minister Betting is well under way. In this area of political betting, punters can still receive a free bet bonus from online betting bookmakers when they register with them.

It’s often forgotten that these types of political events can be part of your online betting campaign as they can get lost amongst the more popular sports betting events that occur , particularly at this time of year. Nonetheless, bookmakers offer a nice variety of odds on all sorts of areas in politics from who will be the next prime minister to how many votes they will win by when elected (their majority), who will take the other positions in a subsequent cabinet re-shuffle, who will be the contenders. Then you move on to betting on election campaigns and to place bets on who will represent different constituencies around the country and who will win that constituency, by how many seats, etc.

It really does open up into a huge area of betting interest which of course will spike at the time of any local or general elections.