If you’re an avid online poker player and are just waiting for the District to flip the switch on its planned first-in-the-nation Internet gambling program, you might be waiting for a while.

Md. Gov. Martin O’Malley was also a big winner last night, as Marylanders voted overwhelmingly to legalize slot machine gambling in the state. O’Malley will now move quickly to install up to 15,000 slot machines at five locations around the state: Baltimore City and Anne Arundel, Cecil, Worcester and Allegany counties. The success of the ballot measure also means that we finally get to stop reading sanctimonious articles about how gambling is sooooo bad. Let…

While most of the focus south of the District has been on whether or not Barack Obama can carry the state of Virginia, the electoral fervor north of D.C. has been about slot machines. With good reason: this morning’s Post notes that while some polls referendum which would legalize slot machine gambling in Maryland passing easily, others have the referendum stuck squarely between the margin of error. Even though slots supporters have about seven times…