A look at the fortunes of some of the political names familiar to online gamblers
November 6, 2008 (InfoPowa News) — With the U.S. electoral shake-up now history, InfoPowa takes a look at the losers and winners among American politicians with whom online gamblers have become familiar. The current round of voting decided on the fates of a third of the Senate incumbents and all of the House of Representatives, and fortunately most of the known supporters of the industry succeeded in keeping their seats.
The infamously anti-online gambling Democrat governor of Washington State, Christine Gregoire, managed to again survive a determined effort to unseat her by Republican Dino Rossi. The industry can therefore expect little change to the status quo in a state where almost every other form of gambling known to man is sanctioned and provides revenues to state coffers, but individual gamblers in the privacy of their homes are prohibited on pain of felony penalties from gambling online.
Read the full story at the CAP Newswire.