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Pollsters, take a big gulp (7/11 nails election results)
Dallas Morning News via OC Register ^ | 11/6/04 | Cheryl Hall

Posted on 11/06/2004 1:31:33 PM PST by NormsRevenge

Who needs expensive pollsters and political pundits?

Certainly not the folks at 7-Eleven.

They nailed the presidential election with an unabashedly unscientific, tongue-in-cheek poll based on coffee- cup sales.

When the national convenience store chain closed its "precincts" on Monday, its month-long promotion showed that 51.08 percent of its customers nationwide preferred coffee in a Bush cup, and 48.92 percent picked Kerry containers.

Margin of error: zero.

To heck with reading tea leaves. Jim Keyes, 7-Eleven chieftain, is sticking to coffee.

"Our popular vote was absolutely right-on," he says, adding that the accuracy was slightly spooky but hardly surprising. "We sell a million cups of coffee every day, so our sample size was huge."

(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: biggulp; pollsters; take

1 posted on 11/06/2004 1:31:33 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

BTTT


2 posted on 11/06/2004 1:32:34 PM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: NormsRevenge
And they MADE money on the deal!
Isn't free enterprise GREAT!
3 posted on 11/06/2004 1:35:18 PM PST by GrandEagle
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To: NormsRevenge

Then 7-11 coffee drinker are a good cross section of the populace.


4 posted on 11/06/2004 1:36:23 PM PST by demlosers
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To: NormsRevenge

I hear the slushy vote went to Nadar.


5 posted on 11/06/2004 1:36:54 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: NormsRevenge

Java for Bush!


6 posted on 11/06/2004 1:37:32 PM PST by demlosers
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To: NormsRevenge
Well, while it's not a poll, some savvy freeper came pretty close on the electoral college numbers.

7 posted on 11/06/2004 1:38:10 PM PST by MaryFromMichigan (We childproofed our home, but they are still getting in)
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To: NormsRevenge

What would be really interesting to me is scientific study of the results.


8 posted on 11/06/2004 1:40:07 PM PST by taxcontrol (People are entitled to their opinion - no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Look for LIBS To flock to Seven-Eleven in next election cycle to try and convince poeple their 'guy' is winning.


9 posted on 11/06/2004 1:46:08 PM PST by The_Republican
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To: NormsRevenge

"We sell a million cups of coffee every day, so our sample size was huge."

There you go, hubby bought a Bush cup of joe, but he didn't even realize it! I think they did this last time too and were right then also, but I'm not sure they were a close to the actual razor thin margin in 2000.


10 posted on 11/06/2004 1:47:42 PM PST by jocon307 (Maintain the mandate!)
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To: The_Republican
Look for LIBS To flock to Seven-Eleven in next election cycle to try and convince people their 'guy' is winning.

He-hee! I'm actually surprised to hear that 7-11 was able to get this right -- I thought all the libs were supposed to be the snooty fancy mocha cappuccino Starbucks crowd.

11 posted on 11/06/2004 2:06:14 PM PST by Ryan Spock
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To: NormsRevenge

Latest Poll ... Courtesy of Infidel Express

Islamofascist Muzzle-em observers were unmoved by recent terrorist events. In a phone poll 93% supported kidnapping and decapitation !!!


12 posted on 11/06/2004 2:22:41 PM PST by GeekDejure ( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!!)
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To: NormsRevenge
coffee shops: the new battleground states.
13 posted on 11/06/2004 2:25:15 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (if a man lives long enough, he gets to see the same thing over and over.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I think that John Zogby should have to go through the 7/11 training program and work the counters for at least a year to learn the fine art of polling.


14 posted on 11/06/2004 2:26:31 PM PST by beckham
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To: NormsRevenge

I know there are 5 or 6 people in my town walking around with dripping Kerry cups! ;)


15 posted on 11/06/2004 2:33:19 PM PST by WSGilcrest (must i include the /sarcasm tag?)
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