ManifoldPlay moneyPoliticsDevelopingUpdated 52m ago

Will the Libertarian candidate in the 2026 US Senate Election in Texas get 2% or more of the vote?

As of Oct 27, 2026, 7:48 PM ET, Manifold priced this market at 61.4% (little changed over 24 hours). It had 10 mana traded in the past 24 hours and 1K mana of pool liquidity. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as moderate.

Market probability
61.4%
Little changed over 24 hours
Resolving soonNot live — snapshot Oct 27, 7:48 PM ET

Play-money market (mana, not dollars) — thin market where small orders can move the price, traded by a small group of accounts.

Price historyManifold

Source: Manifold price history

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Moderate

Consensus stability

Stable

Contract clarity

High

Can you trust this price?

Two different questions: how hard the price is to move, and whose trading set it.

Market capacity

How hard is it to move this price?

Thin

Pool liquidity

1K mana

Bid-ask spread

n/a

automated market maker

24h volume

10 mana

Total volume

2.5K mana

Play money: depth is in mana, so it says nothing about real-money conviction.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

A few accounts
53%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

10

Trades

14

over 45 days

Largest order

1K mana

2.7K mana traded across these 14 trades (last 45 days).

A small group of accounts did most of the trading — neither one whale nor a broad crowd.

Recent trade activity$2.7K traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

What this market actually measures

2026 United States Senate election in Texas - Wikipedia Resolves yes if the Libertarian candidate, Ted brown, receives 2.0000% or more of the vote in the 2026 Texas election, against Talarico and Paxton. Ted Brown (@TedBrownLiberty) on X [link preview]

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View full official resolution rules

2026 United States Senate election in Texas - Wikipedia Resolves yes if the Libertarian candidate, Ted brown, receives 2.0000% or more of the vote in the 2026 Texas election, against Talarico and Paxton. Ted Brown (@TedBrownLiberty) on X [link preview]

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesNovember 3, 2026 at 6:59 PM ET

    The contract must resolve based on what has happened by this date.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 27, 8:40 PM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: low · expected error ±18 pts.

Thin marketLegacy movement classifier: watch

What's happening

low classifier confidence
Thin market

Thin book and/or wide spread. Small orders can move this price disproportionately, so any single print is noisy and easily overread.

  • Thin book and/or wide spread.

Read with caution —Read the latest price with caution; conditions make it an unreliable summary right now.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
13Low
Where the price path tends to go next504 observed
  • Illiquid / quiet98%
  • Choppy / mean-reverting1%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityHigh· half-life —
PredictabilityStable

Secondary read: leaning toward Stale price.

A read-only classification of the market environment — how much weight the current price deserves as a read of consensus. It describes conditions, never a trade.

Change (pts)1H0.06H0.024H0.07D0.0