Poker Players Alliance grades presidential candidates
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Poker Players Alliance board member Rich Muny recently handed out grades to the United States presidential candidates based on their views of online poker and gambling.
The grades only took into consideration their positions on the subject, and no other issues or qualifications.
According to onlinecasinoadvisory.com:
Muny gives John McCain a D, mostly for McCain’s voting against any legalization of sports gambling. The Republican candidate does not have strongly expressed views on online gambling or poker. McCain did not sign a pro-UIGEA staement circulated by anti-gambling factions.
Barack Obama was graded by Muny as a C. This grade was awarded despite Obama’s well-publicized votes against gambling initiatives while in the Illinois Senate, votes he defended as being against those particular measures rather than against gambling per se. Obama has conceded himself a poker player, and has voiced support for a legislative study on online gambling.
Bob Barr, the Libertarian candidate, was given an A+, as the party is strongly in favor of the legalization of online gambling.
