Senate Concurrent Resolution 133<\/a> on June 3. But after, it cleared the Assembly by a 70-4 margin on June 24.<\/p>\nIn a release detailing the poll results, Dan Cassino, an FDU professor of government and politics who serves as the poll\u2019s executive director, said that the issue may have some status quo bias attached to it. When people are asked about an issue they do not know well, they tend to oppose a change.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs it is, opposition is some combination of not wanting to change things without understanding the options, and just plain opposition to more expansion of gambling in the state,\u201d <\/strong>he said. \u201cSupporters have to explain what they\u2019re proposing, and hope that voters are going to buy-in.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nWho Supports Betting on New Jersey Colleges<\/h2>\n
The FDU poll also broke down the survey results by age, education, gender, and political party. Of those subgroups, only one \u2013 adults age 18-34 \u2013 supported the measure, and that was only by a 36-35 margin. Senior citizens, though, only backed it at 11 percent.<\/p>\n
Besides the younger adults, support for in-state college sports betting is strongest among Independent and Republican voters (both support at 32 percent, though 51 percent of GOP voters said they opposed). Democrats opposed it by an 18-49 margin.<\/p>\n
The poll found 36 percent of men support it, compared to just 14 percent of women. Regarding education, those who didn\u2019t go to college supported the measure most at 30 percent. The higher the educational attainment, the less support for ending the ban the poll found.<\/p>\n
Those numbers do not bode well for the measure, Cassino said.<\/p>\n
\nThis change might have had a better chance in a higher turnout year,\u201d said Cassino. \u201cBut among the voters who tend to turn out the most, there\u2019s just no appetite for expanding gaming yet again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Even with the in-state college sports exclusion, New Jersey has firmly positioned itself as America\u2019s top sports betting market<\/a>. However, that spot will likely become New York\u2019s once its mobile apps come online, likely in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A proposed state constitutional amendment to allow sports betting on games involving in-state college teams easily cleared last month through the New Jersey Legislature. However, a recent survey shows the referendum faces a tougher test in the voting booth. On Thursday, Fairleigh Dickinson University released the results of a recent poll that found just 25 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":179164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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