Posted on 09/23/2016 6:57:35 AM PDT by 11th_VA
7-Eleven typically offers two different coffee cup options for its 7-Election promotional campaign, each named for one of the presidential candidates from the two major political parties. This year, however, there are three options: Republican, Democrat, and “Speak Up.” No candidate names.
The nondenominational “Speak Up” cup is currently winning the poll by a pretty fair margin. It offers coffee drinkers the opportunity to pencil in their own political stance, or abstain from pouring their brew into a partisan container to maintain their political purity.
With the exception of Idaho and Iowa, which are both leaning Republican in 7-Eleven’s poll (and in real life) coffee drinkers in the 32 states with 7-Eleven locations are favoring the “Speak Up” cup.
(Excerpt) Read more at vocativ.com ...
“At least in my area, most 7-11’s are found in gritty, low-income urban areas. Not sure if their clientele would be demographically representative of the nation as a whole.”
We pass a 7/11 about 2 miles from our home to go grocery shopping about a mile away from the 7/11.
About once a month, we see the local cops in the parking lot or the street by the store by a car with the doors and trunk or tailgate open. The driver is spread eagle against his vehicle, on the ground or sitting on a curb in the parking lot.
The last event was a couple of weeks ago on the cross road across from the7/11 parking lot exit/entrance. Two motorcycle cops and a K-9 patrol car had a guy sitting on the curb in handcuffs. The dog was on point to the open car trunk lid. Inside the trunk were a lot of stacked big baggies with something green inside.
EXACTLY!
“I’m willing to bet that many of those “neither” cups are Trump people who don’t want to be hassled whilst enjoying their coffee....or attacked.”
Exactly. These results are worthless.
I am guessing that if the third option was just a regular plain coffee cup instead of ‘speak up’ (wtf does that mean?) it would have an even higher percentage
If they had any cahones they would do just R -vs- D
But I am guessing the R’s would have them freaking out
We used to have 7-11 in Memphis. Now it is Mapco and Circle K
The 7-11 campaign was poorly run. I bought a cup in a place that did not have the priced marked. At $1.84, it was higher than a large coffee. It was also an extra large cup. I usually buy a medium. I saw that they lowered the price to $1.39.
The guy at my city center 7-11 told me that he was selling more republican cups then dem cups.
The “Speak up” cup means “I don’t have the balls to admit I’m voting for Trump” or “I have the intelligence of a fruit fly and have no clue about the voting process”.....
Very interesting poll results, and the Clinton campaign has to be thrilled that there is a purple cup this year.
Here are the Clinton/Trump results for each State, and DC, according to the 7/11 website:
AZ 35/29 C +6
CA 34/28 C +6
CO 31/29 C +2
CT 26/31 T +5
DC 45/20 C +25
DE 35/25 C +10
FL 27/32 T +5
ID 08/52 T +44
IL 31/28 C +3
IN 26/29 T +3
IA 08/62 T +54
KS 24/33 T +9
KY 05/24 T +19
ME 28/35 T +7
MD 35/27 C +8
MA 31/32 T +1
MI 28/29 T +1
MO 37/26 C +11
NV 29/32 T +3
NH 22/31 T +9
NJ 26/33 T +7
NY 25/33 T +8
OH 29/30 T +1
OR 29/29 Tie
PA 30/32 T +2
RI 25/32 T +7
TX 29/30 T +1
UT 26/29 T +3
VT 18/16 C +2
VA 28/29 T +1
WA 30/28 C +2
WV 25/36 T +11
WI 26/34 T +8
While there are some really odd results, like Clinton winning Missouri by 11 and Trump winning in Massachusetts by 1, these are horrid numbers for the Clinton camp.
If you were to plug in the results above into an election map, it would be 136 Electoral Votes for Clinton and 269 Electoral Votes for Trump. A weird looking map, and not one that the press will be talking about because it is very, very bad for Clinton.
Meaningless, they should disregard the “write-ins” and just tell us who is leading in each state from the people who actually picked a party.
Several months ago, a friend who travels weekly around the country for his job said he hadn’t met anyone voting for Hellary. Most were afraid to say out loud but when they did, they were for Trump. A couple weekends ago, he said he still hadn’t met anyone who was voting for Hellary but that now people are proud to say they’re voting for Trump.
Judging by signs in Maryland, the only Clinton ones are some really good homemade anti-Clinton signs. Lots of Trump signs.
My favorite: “Trump. Annoying liberals since 2016”
There are very few 7-11s in AZ-most are in poor parts of Phx and Tucson, and there are none outside of those cities. This is the land of Circle K and QT
When you take 7-11’s poll results and plug them into 270 to win’s electoral college map, you get this:
http://www.270towin.com/maps/eezry
Trump wins with 278 votes, and that is without no 7-11 states: MT, ND, SD, MN, NE, WY, NM, OK, LA, TN, MS, AL, GA and AR.
7-11 is offering that third cut for two reasons. (1) they want the extra customers, and (2) they do not want to signal the election results, which their cups normally signal.
"You got two for one when Bill ran for president.
Same in 2016---let me introduce my running mate."
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