I am seeing at least three Eastern legislative seats previously held by lottery opponents now, after November, held by new or reelected members who seem predisposed to favor a lottery bill if it is structured with political adroitness, according to quotes in this piece by Barry Smith.

On the other hand, the lottery lobby has, in North Carolina, never exhibited much political adroitness. And new members are still laboring under the misconception that there are hundreds of millions of dollars flowing out of North Carolina into the coffers of neighboring state governments with state lotteries, which is patently false.