Did Jim Leach lose because of online gambling?

[Sam Spade]

poll link?

[Sam Spade]

I'll see if I can find it, but i was just something I read on a blog somewhere, and was commissioned by the Poker Players Alliance.

And you're quoting a poll by the Poker Players Alliance about whether a Congressman lost b/c of his opposition to online gambling seriously?

Come on, BRTD, I thought you were better than that.

[Sam Spade]

Well given the closeness of the election and the nature of the district it would make sense.

Poll was done by RT Strategies, not familiar with them.

RT Strategies was the (first-year) company that gave us all those House polls last year which were some good, some bad.

Doesn't matter.  The way they ask the question - the respondents could have been pushed very easily to make a 5% bad/10% good morph into a 15% bad/10% good scale. 

And considering who sponsored the poll, that wouldn't surprise me.