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Online gambling opponent and one of the GOP’s biggest donors, Sheldon Adelson, recently commissioned the Republican strategic research and polling firm, The Tarrance Group, to conduct a study to determine voter attitudes towards legalized online gambling in the US. Their findings, not surprisingly, favor Adelson’s stance.
It shows a “universal indifference towards legalized online gambling”.
“These key findings are based on telephone interviews with a total of N=2,216 ‘likely’ registered voters throughout these four states,” the Memorandum states. “Responses to this survey were gathered during the period between June-October, 2013. The margin of error associated with the sample for each of these studies is + 4.3% in 95 out of 100 cases.”
A state-by-state breakdown for four states determined the following:
Online vs. Traditional Gambling
|
|
PA |
CA |
KY |
VA |
Mean |
|
No difference |
27% |
30% |
32% |
31% |
30% |
|
Very different |
63% |
58% |
51% |
56% |
57% |
- Gilbert Horowitz, Gambling911.com
