The winds of change may be reaching the State of Ohio as latest polls show that 56% of respondents in a recent poll support legalized casino gambling in Ohio. This comes after years of solid defeats for similar measures in recent. Issue 3 comes to a public vote in November.

Also polled by Quinnipiac University Polling Institute was the Governors decision to allow slot machines at Ohio Race Tracks. 60% of those asked said they agreed with Ted Strickland's plan to expand gambling and help reduce the deficit by one billion dollars if the measure sees the light of day. This, of course, was before the Ohio Supreme Court muddied the waters with their decision earlier today saying his actions would need to be voted on by the public and may delay the slot machines from being installed by their projected date of May 1st and causing an enormous shortfall in the already fragile state budget.