Inside Asian Gaming

inside asian gaming July 2016 6 Cover Story By James Rutherford States and wants to build a wall across the country’s 1,900-mile border with Mexico? Or that a former secretary of state and US senator, the very embodiment of establishment politics and the smart money choice for the White House going on eight years – not to mention a lady who had once been mistress of the place – would have her hands full beating back a challenge to her nomination from a 74-year-old socialist from the tiny state of Vermont who’d been the longest- serving member of Congress never to belong to any political party? “There’s an old Southern saying: ‘This one’s full of fleas’,” says historian and author Michael Green, who teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. “And that takes in this whole election, not just the race for president.” Clinton v Trump The gaming industry’s great unknown W hat can the gaming industry expect from this wildest and most unpredictable of US presidential elections? Put it this way – what if someone told you six months ago that the next leader of the free world could well be a self-proclaimed billionaire property tycoon and reality TV star with four corporate bankruptcies to his credit, who’s running on a pledge to ban the world’s Muslims from entering the United