U.S. poll shows support for legalised sports betting has grown

The latest poll from the New Jersey-based Fairleigh Dickinson University has been released, revealing:

* Half of Americans favour legalising sports betting across the United States, largely because they support the additional tax revenue it could bring for states, and argue that it is taking place anyway;

* Five states already have laws in place facilitating sports betting and 14 others are mulling similar measures;

* By a majority of two to one, respondents were against states sharing sports betting income through the national sports leagues’ proposed  “integrity fee”;

* Around a third of respondents were opposed to any expansion of sports betting in the country, fearing problem gambling, sports integrity and organised crime issues;

* 10 percent of respondents were neutral and “did not know“ if they supported the wider liberalisation of sports betting.

The random sample of adults nationwide was conducted from April 25 to May 1 by land line telephone and cellphone and has a margin of sampling error of 3.9 percentage points.

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