Outpoll Weekly Recap: Politics (December 1 – 7, 2025)

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This week’s political arena felt less like a debate hall and more like a war room, with every major player executing rapid-fire maneuvers ahead of the 2026 midterms. In the U.S. , the Biden administration’s surprise push for a bipartisan tech regulation bill sent shockwaves through prediction markets, with the 'Bipartisan Tech Bill Passes Before Q2 2026' contract surging from 32¢ to 58¢ in 48 hours—a clear bet that campaign-season gridlock might be breaking.Meanwhile, the GOP primary field saw its first major casualty as Senator Vance’s 'America First 2. 0' super PAC failed to gain traction, causing his nomination odds on Polymarket to plummet by 18 points; the smart money is now consolidating around a surging Nikki Haley, whose disciplined, data-driven ground game in Iowa is drawing comparisons to Obama’s 2008 caucus operation.Across the pond, the UK’s Labour Party is running a near-flawless air war, flooding digital platforms with targeted ads that frame the Tories’ internal strife over immigration as a national security weakness—a tactic straight out of the 2019 Conservative playbook, now weaponized against them. The real drama, however, is unfolding in the EU, where French President Macron’s high-stakes gamble to form a centrist coalition ahead of parliamentary elections is being tracked like a horse race, with prediction markets violently swinging between a 45% and 70% chance of success based on leaked polling from Brussels insiders.The meta-narrative? Incumbents are on defense, outsiders are leveraging niche media ecosystems to bypass traditional gatekeepers, and the 24/7 polling cycle has turned every policy leak into a live market event. For strategists, the lesson is clear: the new political currency isn’t just votes; it’s volatility, and the campaigns that can harness it—or at least weather its storms—will be the ones writing the headlines come election night.

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