Who would realistically ban this? I don't think it's an unreasonable guess that sports bettors are more likely to have voted Republican in the recent election:

Who would realistically ban this? I don't think it's an unreasonable guess that sports bettors are more likely to have voted Republican in the recent election: they are likely men, and men that stereotypically like watching sports at that. Republicans are anti-regulation, Trump in particular wants two pieces of regulation removed for any one regulation added (whatever that means). Democrats are not in power and remove sports betting "for your own good" would make them even less popular with this demographic, which does not respond well to that sort of thing.