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Something better than political polls? You bet!

What’s the best way to predict who will win the 2016 election? The answer may not be polls or pundits, but market forces. Predictit is a website that allows people to buy shares in a given candidate’s support in a given state -- essentially a political stock market, and one that could prove more accurate than traditional polling methods. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.
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