Reply #58: This is the underground issue that will be talked about for years

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The guys I play poker with - and many former players in our game - have been emailing to large lists about this since two weeks ago, when the news first came out. People are FUCKING PISSED, and - quite frankly - have every right to be. The reason that 25-35 year old straight men lean GOP is because they buy the whole Nanny State argument: they don't like a government telling them what to do. Mostly, this position has no relation to the reality of the political situation, and is just really masculinist pathology, but once in a while, it actually does seem politically relevanyt. This is one of those times. I would guess that the majority of online poker players are in this demographic. People LOVE this shit. They really love it. The idea that it should be illegal (after having been de facto legal) is very very annoying and non-sensical to the very demographic the GOP depends on for an easy vote.

I'm telling you, political scientists will study the Great Poker Uprising of 2006 for twenty years.