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 ...
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Then 7-11 coffee drinker are a good cross section of the populace.
I hear the slushy vote went to Nadar.
Java for Bush!
Well, while it's not a poll, some savvy freeper came pretty close on the electoral college numbers.
What would be really interesting to me is scientific study of the results.
Look for LIBS To flock to Seven-Eleven in next election cycle to try and convince poeple their 'guy' is winning.
"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.
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.
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.
I know there are 5 or 6 people in my town walking around with dripping Kerry cups! ;)
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