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Chart: Does Your Choice Of Booze Reveal Your Politics?
Foodspin ^ | 01/06/14 | Reuben Fischer-Baum

Posted on 01/07/2014 9:15:18 AM PST by thetallguy24

DrinkBubble

The chart above, produced by the right-leaning research firm NMRPP and first published in the Washington Post last week, shows the comparative political inclinations (and relative voter turnouts) associated with the drinkers of various major liquor brands.

At first glance this may look like it conforms to some basic stereotypes about the two parties—Democrats like wine! Republicans like whiskey!—but wine actually runs the whole political scale, with Smoking Loon drunk primarily by Democrats, and Robert Mondavi drunk primarily by Republicans. Major whiskey brands do generally show a Republican bent, with the exception of Jameson, Canadian Mist, and Glen Ellen.

Gin is nearly exclusively Democratic, but the real lesson of the chart is to stay away from Jägermeister, a bi-partisan scourge that apparently renders you unable to get up and vote.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alcohol; conservtive; democrat; republican
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To: Gay State Conservative
There are many vineyards along the shores of Lake Erie. The lake provides the right temperatures and growing season for Riesling grapes. You can see grape vines everywhere along The NY state thruway as you drive beside Lake Erie between the PA border and Buffalo.

The wines produced in that area are not necessarily cheap.

61 posted on 01/07/2014 10:04:48 AM PST by j. earl carter
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To: Darren McCarty

IIRC, after the first few airings, they changed the song in the background.


62 posted on 01/07/2014 10:05:14 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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To: Covenantor

Gin: the only liquor I know that tastes better coming back up that when it is going down.


63 posted on 01/07/2014 10:05:17 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: jumpingcholla34

Abstaining from alcohol doesn’t make you live longer - it just feels that way. :)


64 posted on 01/07/2014 10:06:01 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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To: aomagrat

“No Old Overholt on the chart. I must be too drunk to vote.”

Nor Old Grand-Dad, the favorite of 007 when in the U.S.


65 posted on 01/07/2014 10:06:04 AM PST by LaRueLaDue
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To: stoneyhll

“Diabetes and hypertension” Check and Check!


66 posted on 01/07/2014 10:06:32 AM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: LaRueLaDue

Jim Beam is on that chart, near the line almost all the way to the right.

And how can you even stand Evan Williams? That stuff is nasty.


67 posted on 01/07/2014 10:07:02 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

That FR has a ‘bourbon list’ pretty much says it all.


68 posted on 01/07/2014 10:07:48 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: jumpingcholla34

I’ve heard a story that when someone complained to Lincoln about Gen. Grant’s drinking, Lincoln remarked that they should find out what brand of whiskey he drank and give it to the rest of the Union’s generals.


69 posted on 01/07/2014 10:08:15 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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To: thetallguy24

Democrats go for the sicky-sweet drinks, Republicans like their liquor dry.


70 posted on 01/07/2014 10:09:24 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Vigilanteman

Aninteresting side note:

Would the media compose a chart of “politically preferred” types of MJ?


71 posted on 01/07/2014 10:10:29 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

Evan Williams (especially the green bottle) is an acquired taste. I acquired it when I was young and poor... Just always be sure to mix it with something with flavor, not water...

However, they do have a single barrel version (about $25 a bottle here in OK) that it is quite drinkable.


72 posted on 01/07/2014 10:10:53 AM PST by LaRueLaDue
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To: LaRueLaDue

All I’ve ever had was their cheapest stuff. Even mixed with something, it was borderline undrinkable. I guess I’ll have to check out their better offerings.


73 posted on 01/07/2014 10:12:06 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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To: thetallguy24

I’m up there with the high Republicans. Thank goodness, I would have dumped my libation had it been a liberal one.

My liberal sister-in-law seriously drinks wine but as long as it’s wine, doesn’t matter the maker.


74 posted on 01/07/2014 10:12:22 AM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: 9YearLurker

Well, FR doesn’t “have” a bourbon list.

FR provides band width for Cletus to maintain a ping list related to “bourbon” topics.

Y’all calvinist/babdists need to lighten up.


75 posted on 01/07/2014 10:13:47 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

The single barrel is okay. It helps that it is 90-some proof. (I like the higher alcohol content liquors.) But, Evan Williams has its own distinctive taste: you either like it or not, not much in between. If you are used to something smooth, this is not it.


76 posted on 01/07/2014 10:15:31 AM PST by LaRueLaDue
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To: thetallguy24
I see where the Loons are.

Glenlivet is for Rhinos!

77 posted on 01/07/2014 10:18:05 AM PST by cornelis
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To: thetallguy24
“Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They’re the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They’re usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they’re a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can’t trust a man who’s afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It’s damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he’s heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.” ― James Crumley
78 posted on 01/07/2014 10:18:25 AM PST by mc5cents (Pray for America)
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To: thetallguy24

I like Wild Turkey 101, Elmer T. Lee, Wild Turkey Rare Breed, Knob Creek, Booker’s, etc.

I like bourbon.


79 posted on 01/07/2014 10:23:15 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
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To: thetallguy24

Makes no difference if the wymens is left-leaning drunk or right-leaning drunk...if it’s last call.


80 posted on 01/07/2014 10:23:27 AM PST by moovova
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