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