Adelson Republican Strategic Research Study: ‘Universal Opposition to Web Gambling’

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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