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Poll: Pennsylvanians Support Gambling Expansion

"`By a slim majority, Pennsylvania voters say riverboat gambling and slot machines at race tracks are acceptable ways to raise state revenue, but there is no great enthusiasm for the gambling measures,' said Clay F. Richards, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

"By a 56-35 percent margin, voters back a plan by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed Rendell to allow slot machines to be placed at the four race tracks in the state, with state taxes on them to be used for public education.

"…Support for expanded gambling was greatest in Philadelphia, where residents back slots at race tracks by a 64-26 percent margin and riverboat gambling by a 63-32 percent margin."

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