Up until this week, I've believed that these factors add up to a better than evens chance of a Republican victory in the race for the White House.
Sure, it's annoying for the fashion industry to suggest that the coolest look woman can rock is to look as if she has a boyfriend, but if this is just the fancy wording the fashion world needs in order to endorse women dressing like slobs, well, it all evens out.
However, Paisley Jr must be privately hoping that the local bookies have called it right, given that they still have him as the evens favourite to win the seat for the DUP and decisively see off the hardline challenge from anti-power-sharing unionism.
Here Mr Havel evens the score with several courteous but deadly thrusts of his own.
Mr Brown has only an evens chance of leading Labour into the next election.
It turns out that with enough wind farms sited in enough places, the supply evens out.
"Now, they are better than evens".The signs are ominous: low new-issue volumes for corporate securities, both debt and equity; falling amounts of loans extended by commercial banks; and a higher price for borrowing.
Last July, approval for the proposition was at 52%, with just 31% against; by last month, the lead had narrowed to more or less evens.
The chances of completing it at all do not look good.When Mr Lamy invited trade ministers to the WTO's lakeside headquarters to try and shape an agreement, the odds were no better than evens.
Too little water, though, and there is not enough to operate the locks and allow ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.It turns out that if the watershed around the canal is well forested, this evens out the water supply throughout the year.
Even after you had survived childhood and started to contribute to the programme your chances of living to see a benefit cheque were not much better than evens (54% for men; 61% for women).
