All sorts of new thinking is emerging from legislatures in the face of the recession, and online sports gambling may be one of the changes soon to come to the US. While many Washington observers have been heralding the approach of regulated Internet gambling, sports wagering wasn't considered likely to be a part of the package until recently.

Now, however, movement in Delaware to exploit an exemption in the national law against sports betting has stirred other states, who are eager to create new revenues as well. New Jersey lawmakers, eager to find a solution for the precipitous drop in Atlantic City income, want the freedom to decide their own rules for sports gambling.

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