The Research 2000 poll, conducted for the Reno Gazette-Journal, found 68 percent of voters were in favor of the initiative filed by the Nevada State Education Association, which would raise the gaming tax from 6.75 percent to 9.75 percent at casinos with a total revenue of more than $1 million a month.
"That's pretty consistent with our findings as well," said Lynn Warne, president of the 28,000-member NSEA. "The (Las Vegas Review-Journal) did a poll that came in with over three-fourths in favor."

The NSEA has until May 20 to submit to the secretary of state the nearly 60,000 signatures required to put it on the November 2008 ballot. If approved by voters, the ballot question would require a second vote in favor in 2010 before it could go into effect.

"This is really bad news for gaming," said Erik Herzik, a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. "They've been running their feel-good ads about 'look how much we contribute,' and nobody's buying it."

Other suspects using feel good ads to hide their questionable positions:
British Petroleum
Exxon-Mobile
Wal-Mart
Archer Daniels Midland
banks
pharmaceutical companies
insurance companies
hospitals
Mormons

Those running hate ads to make you feel bad or angry:
politicians and political action groups