Missouri's Sports Betting Legalization Vote Could be Close

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00:00A lot of lot of opposition to the sports betting bill. A lot of people want sports betting

00:07legalized in Missouri. If you're on social media, you're seeing a lot of this, even if

00:12you don't live in Missouri as well. So I mean, it's kind of hard to predict. It feels like

00:18Jim that this vote is going to be close. I know in all of the pollings that we've seen,

00:23most people in Missouri want to legalize sports betting, but it's not like an 80 20 type thing.

00:29It seems like 60 40. So no telling how this is going to go, I guess. Yeah, you're absolutely

00:34right. I think the last polling that I looked at recently showed about a 52 percent rate

00:40of support for legalizing sports betting in Missouri. So, you know, at this point, it

00:45could be a toss up, though. We did see last week a local news article in Missouri came

00:53out that said that the the opposition did remove about a million dollars worth of TV

01:00ads in the lead up to this ballot question that we'll see that first week in November.

01:06So that would suggest that perhaps the opposition is seeing some polling that doesn't look like

01:14it will go in their favor. But, you know, again, to your point, Craig, I do think it'll

01:19be a relatively close, close vote that we'll see what happens in the next couple of weeks.

01:26But in the lead up to all of this, a lot of money has been been thrown around. More than

01:32forty four million dollars now has been spent both for and against collectively on this

01:38ballot question, whether or not to legalize sports betting in Missouri. In the last week,

01:44we saw Caesars throw in another six thousand dollars behind the several hundred thousands

01:51of dollars that they they spent the week before. Caesars, of course, is in opposition of this

01:58ballot question. They are not in favor of the language that would basically allow Fandul

02:04and DraftKings to come into the market, while Caesars already has several land based casinos

02:11in Missouri. Now, on the for side for voting in favor of the Missouri Sports Betting Legalization,

02:22the Sports Betting Alliance contributed about one hundred thousand dollars to the pro on

02:29this ballot question. So we'll see what ultimately happens. Like I said, they did. The opposition

02:35did remove a lot of those TV ads last week, and that'll continue, obviously, until Election

02:41Day. And both newspapers, both big newspapers in Missouri, have both endorsed the ballot

02:49question in favor of legalizing Missouri sports betting. So we'll obviously see what happens,

02:54what shakes out when this vote comes to pass in the next couple of weeks.