As states across the country legalize sports betting and online sportsbooks flood sports television with celebrity-backed advertisements, Americans are growing more accepting of the practice, a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll finds.
Four years after the Supreme Court overturned a law that limited sports gambling mostly to Nevada, 66 percent now approve of making betting on professional sporting events legal. That’s up from 55 percent who said the same in 2017, before the Supreme Court decision, and 41 percent in 1993. Support for legalizing betting on college sports is lower: 49 percent approve and 50 percent disapprove. CONTINUED
Ben Strauss & Emily Guskin, Washington Post
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