One for Online Poker

August 30, 2008

The people at the Poker Players Alliance are celebrating their recent win over the Republican Party. The PPA had complained loudly about the language in their platform that said that online gambling should be restricted from the United States, and they were heard.

For the first time in more than ten years, the Republican Party Platform doesn’t have any language stating so, and it is because of the PPA. They complained about the language and the party removed it from the platform.

There was a spot on their site that allowed members to talk about the party or to comment on issues. The party found that the majority of their comments had come from online poker players who wanted to be heard.

Most of them said that they thought the Republican party was out of touch with what the rest of the party wanted. They said that they thought that online poker should be legal, and they wanted the party to know that. Many threatened not to vote Republican, stating that if they were going to so blatantly go against their wishes and push to have poker illegal online that they were going to go to the other party.