Coffee Cup Poll Says Obama In A Landslide

Posted on October 2nd, 2008 12:12pm by Glenn Hunter
Filed under Business, Local News, Politics

OK, we’re falling for this shameless publicity stunt from Dallas-based 7-Eleven, just because it’s sort of timely and interesting. The photo shows 7-Eleven’s Rick Wilshe with the two major-party “presidential candidates” at the 7-Eleven at Hillcrest and Northwest Highway yesterday, when the company kicked off its third Coffee Cup Poll. Customers choose to pour their favorite beverages into either a red cup for McCain or a blue cup for Obama; results are then tabulated at each store’s register and fed into a system that tracks them nationwide, on a daily basis. The countrywide results after one day: Obama’s thumping McCain by 57% to 43%. Heck, the Dem’s even winning in Texas.

44 comments

  1. Obama’s coffee will make you stimulated,
    so you want stutter through the day at work like Obama’s speeches without a telepromter.

    Will Obama’s coffee have a tax on anyone making
    over $45,000?

    @ 12:25 pm on October 2, 2008

  2. No, but neither will Obama.

    http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/would_obama_tax_my_profits_if_i.html

    @ 12:29 pm on October 2, 2008

  3. Why does the McCain guy look more like Sunburned Don Rickles?

    @ 12:52 pm on October 2, 2008

  4. I want stutter and telepromter.

    @ 12:53 pm on October 2, 2008

  5. how many visits has Wick made there? just wondering.

    @ 1:05 pm on October 2, 2008

  6. Considering I vote, but don’t drink coffee, I’m feeling under-represented. Now, if they had Slurpee cups for each candidate, I’d be balancing out Wick’s visits.

    @ 1:12 pm on October 2, 2008

  7. Most of my Mexican friends back in Ohio and other same day voting states have already voted for Obama or will be which just shows how egotistical and stupid John McCain is. As tight as this race was all he had to do was keep to his pro immigration reform position and he maybe could have had his fair share of them too on top of his regular Republican voters. But that just shows you what trying to be all things to all people will get you. He should have stayed on the right side of the issue from the beginning.

    @ 1:12 pm on October 2, 2008

  8. 1. Since 7-Eleven doesn’t have stores in all 50 states, much less every city, the results are meaningless.

    2. Since there is no correlation between coffee drinkers and voters, the results are meaningless.

    Otherwise, the results are totally meaningful.

    @ 1:31 pm on October 2, 2008

  9. Guys, cancel the victory parade. Sam’s right. 7-Eleven has fooled me again. But their coffee is so good. Argh. Why must everything be so difficult?

    @ 1:38 pm on October 2, 2008

  10. Can I get a cup if I just want water? I’m trying to drink all the water I can … before Obama starts taxing it. Yes, that’s right, Wolverine, you heard it here first. Now commence to disseminatin’.

    Oh, also, Obama has three testicles and he and Michelle were married in a, quote, Extra Special Secret Sinister Witch Goat-Sacrifice Ceremony for Witches, unquote.

    Prove it’s true? Well, you just now read it, didn’t you? So of course it’s true.

    @ 1:42 pm on October 2, 2008

  11. Does Michigan have 7-11s?

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/02/mccain-pulling-out-of-mic_n_131287.html

    @ 1:50 pm on October 2, 2008

  12. Sam Merten: In defense of this admittedly silly poll, it accurately predicted Bush over Gore by 1% in 2000 and had Bush beating Kerry in 2004, 51% to 49%.

    @ 1:55 pm on October 2, 2008

  13. If it wasn’t for the red cup, you’d be unable to prove the person on the left is not Celeste from 20 years in the future.

    @ 2:06 pm on October 2, 2008

  14. Yeah, and the Obama figure looks like Nipsy Russell. [GENE RAYBURN: Which still won't prevent him from levying a tax on your ... BLANK.]

    @ 2:20 pm on October 2, 2008

  15. Oh my. I just realized how much more amusing and, strangely, less absurd this election would be were it actually Nipsy Russell v. Suburned Don Rickles.

    @ 2:41 pm on October 2, 2008

  16. No cup to vote for César Chávez? Oh, wrong poll….

    @ 2:49 pm on October 2, 2008

  17. Nipsy Russell RIP

    Roses are red, my cup is blue
    I am taxing water, Daniel it’s true!

    @ 2:53 pm on October 2, 2008

  18. Consider the crowd at 711. I wouldn’t expect as many red cups sold there anyway.

    @ 4:12 pm on October 2, 2008

  19. @ RedCups

    What?! Republicans don’t ever fill up their car with gas or buy sodas or coffee? Man, that’s news to me. I thought that was kind of a universal thing that really didn’t run down party lines. I guess there’s a secret Republican convenience store we all don’t know about. Hmmmm.

    Sorry. I just like the idea that we can now add the “liberal 7-11″ to the pantheon of “liberal media” and “liberal Hollywood.”

    @ 4:17 pm on October 2, 2008

  20. That’s right, RedCups – McCain supporters prefer to pay $3.50 for a cup ‘o joe.

    @ 4:19 pm on October 2, 2008

  21. I’m surprised no one has yet made a reference to Two Girls, One Cup. Now I’m sorry that I did.

    @ 4:22 pm on October 2, 2008

  22. @RedCups: You’re right. I have always made it a point to avoid more right-wing convenience stores, such as the Tiger Mart on Mockingbird and Greenville. And you’ll never find me setting foot inside a Circle K. It’s like a Young Republicans meeting.

    @ 4:26 pm on October 2, 2008

  23. I wonder what the name of the conservative convenience store would be?

    @ 4:27 pm on October 2, 2008

  24. Oh, right. Circle K. The K is for konservative.

    @ 4:27 pm on October 2, 2008

  25. I was talking with a couple of coworkers who picked up their blue cups this morning. They said they couldn’t even find red cups at their 7-11.

    @ 4:38 pm on October 2, 2008

  26. Bethany, before you post a link about “facts” you might like to check this fact about your “community organizer” thug: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEeHl0h3NBo&feature=related

    @ 4:41 pm on October 2, 2008

  27. @ Hot For Sarah Palin

    Speaking of checking stuff, I wish that before anything, the person who posted that Youtube video had checked their spelling of the candidate’s name. I’m pretty sure Military Living Quarter Obama is not the Democratic candidate.

    But as far as the shortage of red cups, it’s obviously the liberal gas station bias rearing its ugly head.

    @ 4:46 pm on October 2, 2008

  28. You know why the Red Cups are gone?

    Because the people who bought red cups paid for them with their own money. While the blue cup riff-raff customers were waiting for Lord Obama to tax fellow citizens to give them a “FREE” drink.

    @ 4:46 pm on October 2, 2008

  29. I like the well-reasoned, thoughtful debate we have going on now.

    Also: thanks for the head’s up, guys. I frequent several area 7-Elevens. I didn’t know I was surrounded by liberal “riff-raff.” I’ll make sure to keep my head on a swivel.

    @ 4:52 pm on October 2, 2008

  30. I like my candidates like I like my coffee.

    Black.

    @ 4:52 pm on October 2, 2008

  31. I hear the Weather Underground is planning to hold a meeting at the 7-11 at Hillcrest and NW HWY.

    @ 5:07 pm on October 2, 2008

  32. The Messiahs mask has that “I can tell any lie i want because the medias in the tank for me” look down perfect.

    @ 5:18 pm on October 2, 2008

  33. Don’t be a Jackass this Nov. 4, Vote Republican.

    @ 5:20 pm on October 2, 2008

  34. I like my candidates like I like my coffee. :-)

    @ 5:25 pm on October 2, 2008

  35. Yeah, well. Try red Depends vs. blue Depends after a hot game of balloon volleyball and see who rolls into the Oval office.

    @ 5:36 pm on October 2, 2008

  36. You are so right. A nonpartisan organization like FactCheck.org is clearly not as reliable as a You Tube video. Thank you for setting me straight.

    @ 6:40 pm on October 2, 2008

  37. A nonpartisan organization like FactCheck.org is clearly not as reliable as a You Tube video.

    Would that be this factcheck.org?

    @ 6:48 pm on October 2, 2008

  38. Bethany, next time you spell “You Tube” in your posts, maybe you could use factcheck for a spellcheck. “You tube” is spelled “Youtube.”

    @ 7:07 pm on October 2, 2008

  39. My mistake, Ex. ;)

    And diahh, thanks for giving me the link of some guy. I’m going to go write on my blog that I think the earth is flat. That way it’ll be completely true.

    @ 7:28 pm on October 2, 2008

  40. And diahh, thanks for giving me the link of some guy. I’m going to go write on my blog that I think the earth is flat. That way it’ll be completely true.

    I’d like to give you a link to a mainstream media organization, but they don’t seem to like printing stories that are harmful to Dear Leader. Here’s one from Fox News though, yes i know, try not to freak out too much. And here’s a couple more just for the heck of it. And just for the rcord, Patterico is well known and respected in the conservative blogosphere.

    @ 7:52 pm on October 2, 2008

  41. @Delbert –
    With cream and sugar?

    @ 9:08 am on October 3, 2008

  42. THE OBAMA CUPS WAS RUNNING OUT. MY FRIENDS BOUGHT LIKE 2 CUPS EACH AND THE BLUE CUPS WERE RUNNING OUT =] OBAMA ALL THE WAYY!!!!!

    @ 11:01 pm on October 6, 2008

  43. We have one seven/eleven in Wylie. I went out of my way, all the way across town even, to buy a blue cup of black coffee. I got to pay three prices for it too, $1.50.

    There were a couple of red cuppers in there when I grabbed my blue cup. Them boys had the deer in the headlights look if I’ve ever seen it. I guess they were listening to the stock market reports earlier. Finding fantasy rich isn’t near as fun as real poor has to be a shock to the system.

    I did notice that they had plenty of Bradley cups in there. Those are the standard 7-11 cups for those who have public commitment issues.

    @ 7:27 am on October 11, 2008

  44. I was looking for the Joe the Plumber cup, but it had a leak in it.

    Ba-boom!

    @ 7:13 am on October 20, 2008