My question is, of course: are these people all going to hell?

During the last US presidential election, I put some skin in the game on one of these online betmatching sites. It was actually very useful, in a psychological sense. Once my money was on the line, unfocused partisan umbrage was immediately replaced by cold calculation of portfolio impact. I managed to neither win nor lose much, however, and the big bet (would some skanky offshore website actually pay off when asked) came through, so I was happy.