Wording and sequence have a lot to do with results.
What Americans want is really not relevant to what should and shouldn’t be legal.
True, but the poll questions from Zogby are pretty straightforward, and their sample – 30,000 potential voters – is a large enough sample to be taken seriously.
The actual questions asked and more detailed analysis of results is here at that site:
http://www.onlinegamblingmythsandfacts.com/polls.htm
As to your comment, “what Americans what is really not relevant to what should and shouldn’t be legal“:
I agree, but that’s not the way it works.
Although the US is meant to be a Constitutional Republic, the Congressmen and Senators act more and more as if it is a simple representative democracy, where those who vote decide who make the rules, and those they vote in have almost absolute power to make whatever law they want.
The opposite is meant to be true in America – that the tyranny of the majority is restrained by the Constitution.
So in fact, those who vote do make the rules, because Congress listens to them, and passes laws that make them electable (or that they think will make them electable), Constitution be damned.
Sad, but true.