The trouble to legalize sports activities betting in California ran headlong right into a typical problem for competing poll measures as every was battered in a torrent of damaging promoting that doomed each to spectacular failure in the costliest poll race in U.S. historical past.
Anytime voters face two measures at odds with one another, they have an inclination to reject each, stated professor David McCuan, chairman of the political science division at Sonoma State College.
“Every time we have now dueling poll measures, and the opponents have an arsenal of {dollars} … the opponents will go nuclear. And in a nuclear warfare all people loses,” McCuan stated. “Probably the most highly effective cash in California politics is on the ‘No’ facet of poll measures.”
The end result was a pasting on the polls for each.
With 5.3 million votes counted Wednesday, greater than 80% of voters rejected an effort by the gaming business that may have allowed on-line and cellphone wagers on sports activities. A measure supported by Native American tribes that may have let gamblers place sports activities bets at tribal casinos and 4 horse tracks was opposed by 70% of voters.
