Ron Paul has won the presidential straw check during the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual political convention held since 1973 and attended by U.S. conservative activists. Paul, who is a Texas Republican Congressman and was also a U.S. Presidential candidate in 2008, has been voted as the favourite to become the next Republican candidate to run against President Barack Obama in 2012. Capturing some 31 percent of the vote of more than 2,000 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) attendees who participated in the poll, Paul is one of the leading supporters of legislation to legalize online gambling.
Ron Paul and the online gambling industry
Paul wins by broad margin: After the votes of Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll, the 74-year old politician from Texas was preferred to three-time winner (2006, 2007 and 2008) and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, with 22%, followed by Sarah Palin with 7%, and Tim Pawlenty with 6%. Despite his win, Paul was booed during the announcement results. “Paul is committed to bringing the movement back to its traditions of balanced budgets” said the spokesman Jesse Benton commenting on his resistance to government spending while the debt keeps growing. The conservative Congress member has been a long-time supporter of a regulated online gambling industry in the U.S. – a movement toward online gambling regulation that is shared by public and financial institutions interested in the related revenues that are currently flowing outside the U.S. due to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
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