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Odds that the 46-year-old Illinois senator will prevail in tomorrow's vote jumped after he won last week's Iowa Democratic caucuses, while wagers on New York Senator Hillary Clinton, the third-placed finisher in Iowa, tumbled. Online traders say Clinton, 60, has an 8.7 percent chance of winning in New Hampshire, according to futures contracts at Intrade...

…but, the expectations of online gamblers aside, could someone at Bloomberg explain what possible relevance the candidate's ages have to the story? Neither candidate is notably young nor aged in the context of presidential candidates. So, we couldn't distinguish them otherwise? What?