Odds favor Romney and Cain

Here are the odds on the various candidates winning the Republican presidential nomination next year, according to Irish betting site Paddy Power.

Mitt Romney leads the pack at 8/15, followed by Herman Cain at 7/2 and Rick Perry at 4/1. Frighteningly, the odds against Ron Paul, according to Paddy Power, are only 16/1.

Michele Bachmann, the "flavor of the month" when our local right-wing whack jobs here in Iowa made her the winner of the Ames straw poll back in August, continues to fade. Paddy Power now has the odds against the Lutheran apostate's nomination at 40/1.