New Yorkers are going all in for casino gambling, a new poll shows. A Quinnipiac University survey showed a whopping 64% of state voters and 65% of city voters favored Atlantic City or Las Vegas style casinos in New York, up from 56% who favored such casinos in September. Click below to read the story.
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“New Yorkers say shuffle and deal,” said Quinnipiac pollster Maurice Carroll.
Only 31% of New York voters opposed legalized casino gambling and another 68% said such casinos would be good for the state’s economy, the poll found.
Gov. Cuomo has called for legalized gambling in the state and is expected next year to propose changing the state’s Constitution to do so.
The governor has yet to detail where in the state he’d allow casinos.
A constitutional amendment must be approved by two successive Legislatures and by the public in a referendum. The soonest a referendum could occur is 2013.
Quinnipiac’s poll also revealed that New Yorkers are split on the thorny issue of hydro-fracking.
Forty four percent of New Yorkers support the controversial natural gas drilling procedure while 45% oppose it because of environmental concerns.
