[Squarehoop1]

No, it doesn't matter. There are almost no candidates, Democrat or Republican who have declared themselves in favor of regulated online gaming. Most are hedging their bets and saying they have not decided yet. Which is good. We just want to make a demonstration that we will take action and then the undecided folks will become afraid of us folks. It is therefore not even important for the candidate we support to win. The only thing we need to show is a forceful action, especially one which involves a large amount of campaign dollars. I guarantee you, there will be no candidate who has to run in the next election who will want to risk having it be his/her state that we pick next time. Which means follow up action (ie further enforcement) will be far less likely. Then sites like Pokerstars and FullTilt will stay around, then more players will come, then we will have more time to organize and lobby, then we will most likely get a written poker carver out, then we can forget this ever happened.