Online Casino Friend Ron Paul Shows Strong in Conservative Poll

But a pleasant surprise came from the conference, as a poll taken to find potential candidates for the next Presidential election showed growing strength by an old friend of online gambling, Ron Paul.

Members of the online casino industry are watching apprehensively as conservatives, including many gaming opponents, meet to consider their approach to being the minority. But a pleasant surprise came from the conference, as a poll taken to find potential candidates for the next Presidential election showed growing strength by an old friend of online gambling, Ron Paul.

Internet gambling insiders are guardedly optimistic that Democratic control of the Presidency and Congress will mean an opening of the US online casino market. Still, a watchful eye is kept on the foes of gambling, many of whom were at the Conservative Political Action Conference this week.

Casino gambling advocates were thrilled to see Representative Ron Paul of Texas finish a strong third in the poll. Paul pulled thirteen percent, demonstrating that his building grass-roots movement from last year's campaign was continuing to expand.

Paul has consistently advocated allowing individuals the right to decide their own lifestyle, including whether to patronize Internet casinos.

Paul finished behind Mitt Romney, with twenty percent, and Bobby Jindal, with fourteen percent. Neither man is considered indebted to the evangelistic party wing that so abhors gambling.

Figures that reason to pull support from would-be Internet censors polled weakly, as Sarah Palin reached thirteen percent and Mike Huckabee took seven percent.

The poll is important as it shows a movement by conservatives and Republicans away from religious social conservatism and toward small government libertarianism, as proposed by Paul and, to lesser degrees, Romney and Jindal.