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Julia Letlow
YesNo
John Fleming
YesNo
Bill Cassidy
YesNo
Julie Emerson
YesNo
Blake Miguez
YesNo
Eric Skrmetta
YesNo
Randall Arrington
YesNo
Kathy Seiden
YesNo
Xan John
YesNo
Samuel “Sammy” Wyatt
YesNo
Chris Holder
YesNo
Tracy Dendy
YesNo
AI Insights:
2 hours ago UpdatedFair Value Reasoning:
1. **Polling Warfare & Information Asymmetry**: The market is in a period of high volatility driven by conflicting data. While the Quantus poll (Mar 15) and JMC poll (Feb) showed Fleming leading or tied, the release of the Letlow-sponsored Fabrizio Lee poll on Mar 17 (showing Letlow 27% vs Fleming 19%) successfully reversed market sentiment, causing Letlow to rebound from 57c to 65c. 2. **Letlow's Premium & Risk**: While Letlow holds the 'golden ticket' of endorsements from Trump and Gov. Landry, the current price of 65c (65% implied probability) slightly overvalues her certainty in a messy three-way dogfight. Since a 50% threshold is needed to avoid a runoff and no candidate is close, the risk of a volatile runoff warrants a slightly lower fair value of 58c. 3. **Fleming Undervalued**: Fleming's current price of 22c is oversold. Despite Letlow's internal polling, third-party polling (Quantus) shows him highly competitive with core demographics. As a self-funding anti-establishment hawk, he retains a viable path in a runoff, justifying a fair value around 27c. 4. **Cassidy's Dead End**: As an incumbent haunted by his impeachment vote, Cassidy fails to break 30% in any poll and loses runoff simulations to all challengers; 14c reflects merely his incumbency floor.
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Rule Risk
Moderate risk exists. Louisiana traditionally uses a 'Jungle Primary' (all candidates on one ballot). While a new law (Act 1 of 2024) mandated a closed party primary for the 2026 Senate race, this breaks 50 years of precedent. The risks are: 1) Legal challenges could strike down or pause the new law before May 2026, reverting the system to a Jungle Primary where no separate 'Republican Primary' exists, triggering the 'Other' resolution clause; 2) Participants may be confused by the structural shift from the state's historical norm.
Divergence
Significant divergence exists. **Polling indicates a 'Deadlock', while the Market prices a 'Coronation'**. Current polling data (whether JMC, Quantus, or Fabrizio) consistently shows a tight three-way race with all candidates polling between 20%-30%, nowhere near the 50% threshold to win outright. However, the prediction market prices Letlow (65c) as an overwhelming favorite. This divergence stems from the market betting heavily on the decisive power of the 'Trump Endorsement' in a potential runoff scenario, while selectively ignoring the high uncertainty of the current first-round statistical tie.
