
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, October 31, 1994                   TAG: 9410310046
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
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THE LATEST ODDS

The University of Iowa runs a computerized political stock market, where political junkies from around the world can plug in via the Internet to buy and sell "shares" in various political candidates, based on how much of the vote they're expected to get in November.

North may be running up the score on college mock elections, but Robb is faring better in cyberspace. Not much better, though. Robb's stock slipped last week, while North reversed a month-long slide and started gaining in value.

Here's how the trading went this past week:

NORTH - up 2.3 percent,

to 39.8 percent

ROBB - down 2.1 percent,

to 40.3 percent

COLEMAN - up 1.3 percent,

to 15.2 percent

The big switch, though, came in a separate part of the stock market, where investors simply make their bids based on who will win, not how much they'll win by. Through most of the campaign, these investors have been buying mostly Robb stock.

Last week, though, they started banking on a North victory. Week before last, 60.5 percent were investing in Robb, 38.9 percent in North. Now it's 57.4 percent buying stock in North, only 41.4 percent putting their money on Robb. Coleman? He's at 1 percent.

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POLITICS

by CNB