Poll: Support for slots referendum decreases
By Danny Reiter, PolitickerMD.com ReporterSupport for legalizing slot machines has dropped according to a new poll.
Voters will decide on November's ballot if the state constitution should be amended to allow no more than 15,000 slot machine installations at five different locations across the state.
The survey paid for and conducted by Gonzales Research & Marketing Strategies shows 49 percent of those polled were for the referendum and 43 percent were against it. Eight percent were undecided.
Support for the amendment has decreased since January, before the ballot's controversial wording was approved by Secretary of State John McDonough.
The poll was conducted between Aug. 29 and Sept. 5 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percent. The poll surveyed 833 registered voters in Maryland via phone.
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Ok, what Republicans are
Ok, what Republicans are seriously supporting Gov. O'Malley's slots package? They may as well have endorsed his tax package. The two were tied together hand and feet.
Ehrlich is against slots. Steele is against slots. Yet 56% of MD Republicans support it? Geeze, you would think those Republicans actually liked O'Malley.
This isn't Bob Ehrlich's slot plan anymore. This sucker is going in the Constitution. It is going to fund O'Malley's massive new social programs. And worst of all, it enabled the tax package.
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