"The Obama administration cleared the way for U.S. states to legalize Internet poker and certain other online betting in a switch that may help them reap billions in tax revenue and spur web-based gambling."
Socialists need lots of tax dollars to pay for an ever increasing burgeoning bureaucracy. So Obama will seek to fleece the pockets of tax payers to pay for big brother.
Of course this will mean that industry will suffer and decline because of the socialist mind set, just as it has done in the UK.