Comments on: Poker’s No-Strings Fling With Politics http://pokerati.com/2008/09/02/pokers-no-strings-fling-with-politics/ Texas Hold'em and Las Vegas WSOP Poker Blog, now with PLO too! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: DanM http://pokerati.com/2008/09/02/pokers-no-strings-fling-with-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-156942 DanM Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:44:26 +0000 http://pokerati.com/?p=4371#comment-156942 Funny, I wasgonna write something about the Bloomberg story -- hadn't seen all the rest of them -- as it struck me that indeed, it seems the non-poker world is finally <i>beginning</i> to understand our issue. I'm not saying they fully embrace it or anything like that. But I'm also not sure they really have to ... So long as the masses have a positive association with the concept of online poker players -- different from those dastardly sports gamblers! -- then they shouldn't have too much of a problem with whichever one of our poker bills out there works its way through Congress, which, of course, is what will allow more representatives to comfortably (and publicly!) get on board. Funny, I wasgonna write something about the Bloomberg story — hadn’t seen all the rest of them — as it struck me that indeed, it seems the non-poker world is finally beginning to understand our issue. I’m not saying they fully embrace it or anything like that. But I’m also not sure they really have to …

So long as the masses have a positive association with the concept of online poker players — different from those dastardly sports gamblers! — then they shouldn’t have too much of a problem with whichever one of our poker bills out there works its way through Congress, which, of course, is what will allow more representatives to comfortably (and publicly!) get on board.

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