Asbury Park, NJ— Rasmussen Reports, LLC, today announced the launch of RasmussenMarkets.com, a “prediction market” that allows players to "buy and sell" candidates, issues, and news futures. RasmussenMarkets.com also provides a platform for anybody to create their own Fantasy Politics League. These friendly competitions will determine the brightest political prophet among their family, friends, classmates and co-workers.

RasmussenMarkets.com is powered by Intrade, the world’s leading prediction market provider.

RasmussenMarkets.com aims to aggregate the wisdom of its participants to give robust predictions on the likelihood of certain events happening. Participants can contribute to the intelligence of the market for the good of all by adding your opinion, “the more the merrier”, or you can just view what the market currently thinks will happen in the future.

Initially focused on Election 2008, RasmussenMarkets.com will harness competitive passions to provide a reliable leading indicator of election results and other upcoming events. These results will be featured as part of the comprehensive Election 2008 coverage provided at RasmussenReports.com along with the daily Presidential Tracking Poll and other daily releases of polling data.

It costs nothing to participate in the Rasmussen Markets as players use their expertise to predict who will win the Iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire Primaries, the key Senate races and more.

Partnership opportunities are available for media outlets.

ABOUT Rasmussen Reports

Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information. Based in Asbury Park, New Jersey, RasmussenReports.com, is the top-ranked site for public opinion information on the web.

ABOUT INTRADE
Intrade is the leading Prediction Market where people can trade on political, financial, weather and other events. Members trade on unique markets and by so doing generate information on the likelihood of the underlying event occurring. Intrade and the predictive information generated by its members have been featured on CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, Fox, Fortune & others. Intrade News on RSS: http://www.intrade.com/news/newsRss.xml