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The genie's way out of the bottle with sports betting. Nonstop ads, branding tie-ins, billboards, podcast ads, on and on.

And it's terrible and going to destroy sports.

We don't need more financial incentive to influence the outcome of elections, there's already enough as it is.

> I liked it for political races as an alternative to polls.

With enough funds, smaller political races can be gamed.

Yeah that too, so only the big ones. Obviously the law can't distinguish since it's all the same kind of gambling.

The law can always distinguish the intent, which might be hard to prove, but not impossible. For instance, a PAC making large bets would raise a lot of suspicion. One Brazilian fugitive currently in the US has injected about a billion dollars in the form of bets on a Brazilian betting company, and that has caught regulators' attention.