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A new poll shows that voters in Ohio support the idea of opening a new casino there.
Asked their position on legalized casino gambling throughout the state with 61 percent supporting and 34 percent opposing.
A total of 800,000 signatures have been collected by casino backers MyOhioNow.com, and submitted to the Ohio Secretary of State’s office last week are certified. Voters are voting in November’s general election to approve or quash the plan, which would result in a $600 million resort developed midway between Columbus and Cincinnati, near Interstate 71 at Route 73.
The casino will include a 220,000-square-foot casino with as many as 5,000 slot machines, 100 gaming tables and a 1,500-room hotel.
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Another initiative tentatively headed to the November ballot garnered support in the survey too. A proposed mandate requiring seven days of paid sick leave for Ohio businesses with 25 or more employees was supported by 69 percent of respondents, with 27 percent against.“If the business community is going to stop this proposal from becoming law, it had better get moving because it is going to have to change public opinion,” Peter Brown, assistant director of the polling institute, said.
The poll, conducted from August 5 to 11, also found that Ohio Treasurer Richard Cordray leads his Republican opponent in the special attorney general election. Of those surveyed, 44 percent said they would vote for Cordray, against 26 percent who would vote for Michael Crites, the Columbus lawyer and former U.S. attorney the GOP chose last month as its candidate.
Cordray’s high-profile elected post gives him a name-recognition edge over Crites, who notably prosecuted baseball legend Pete Rose for tax evasion in 1990. But, neither candidate attains household-name status. Three out of five voters said they don’t even know enough about Cordray to form an opinion, while four out of five said the same of Crites. But they definitely know that they want gambling in Ohio.
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