LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Erik Bucy is a professor of strategic communication at Texas Tech who specializes in media and politics.

He says sports and political gambling can be perceived much differently."It's exciting on one level in the sense that gambling is exciting if you go to Las Vegas, right?" Bucy said.

"It's another question when you think about any adult with money can basically plop down a bet and think they've got a chance to make some money off a civic process."Some critics have feared placing these kinds of bets can be similar to insider trading.