DIY Polling Shows Bush, Kerry Will Win

cheese_wallet writes "7-eleven has a poll conducted by the choice of cup their customers pick for their coffee. They can pick a Kerry cup, a Bush cup, or a Third Party/No Opinion cup (interesting combo). Although it is considered completely unscientific, it polls millions of people and gets past the cell phone barrier. You can see the current stats." And reader Noryungi writes "This is very tongue-in-cheek... Harry's Bar, in Paris (France) has been conducting straw polls for the past 80 years, and has been wrong only once, in 1976. So... who is the winner, according to Harry's Bar poll, for the 2004 US election? Kerry. And not by small numbers either, Kerry wins 56% to 44% in the latest Straw Vote, which is a larger margin than all the other US-based pollsters."

Slashdot Poll Rules

[stinerman]

Don't use these numbers to do anything important.

Urban areas (where one would find more 7/11s) tend to go Democratic. Hence the inherent bias in the figures.

Kerry Wins in France

[christopherfinke]

Kerry's polling well in France? You don't say!

Meanwhile

[Otter]

In other crucial election news, busts of Bush and Kerry carved out of hummus became the focus of a controversy when an unknown individual ate part of Kerry's head [kosherbachelor.com]. It's not known whether this action was politically motivated or if someone simply mistook Kerry for an hors d'oeuvre.

Polls biased

[SoCalChris]

The 7-11 by me only had Bush cups a few days ago.

Either they were trying to swing the poll, or they had sold out of the Kerry cups.

I'm guessing it's the latter, since I live in a fairly liberal area, and all of the local stop signs have been modified to read:

"STOP
BUSH"

Extensive polling in my household

[BandwidthHog]

Every morning before work (if I'm not running too terribly late) I ask myself who I plan to vote for.

So far Kerry's numbers look very good, while Dubya appears likely to be filing for unemployment soon.

Sure, the sample size leaves something to be desired, but I feel my methods are *at least* as accurate as polling drunk expats in Paris.

Re:Kerry Wins in France

[Breakfast Pants]

At my bar in Texas Bush is the predicted winner.

Re:Point less.

[Narkov]

...and how is that any different to election day? Vote early, vote often I say :)

Harmful

[Sponge Bath]

These kind of unscientific polls are often misinterpreted by the masses and can demoralize potential voters. This is clearly biased against the most deserving candidate.

Nader ALL THE WAY baby! YEAAAHHH!

Man... that's good pot.

Re:Electoral college

[BandwidthHog]

Does anyone know if Democrats are statistically more or less likely to actually go out and vote than Republicans.

All I know is that if Bush wins, I will be spending the next four years tracking down democratic voters who didn't vote and beating them savagely with a dead trout.

Keep that in mind next Tuesday, punks.

Re:Slashdot Poll Rules

[BandwidthHog]

And since you seem incapable of detecting sarcasm, I'm going to assume you're one of my ex-girlfriends.

7-11 locally not quite fair..

[iamsure]

With the Bush cups at the checkup line, I went looking for a Kerry cup. I was told it was "Back there".

I walked through the cooler, into the storage shed in the back, crawled under the chicken wire enclosure, picked the lock on the cabinet door, opened the door, got the cup, took it back to the counter, and was told there was a $5 cooler tax.

Damn battleground states.

Demographic breakdown

[Intocabile]

According to 7-11, Bush cup supporters enjoy their coffee with plenty of rich cream and sugar, while Kerry cup supporters prefered they're coffee black or opted for a more international blend. With less the one percent of the cup vote third party cups remained unused, cup voters instead opted for their homemade organic root-marm. When asked about the poll Bush was quoted as saying, "Juan Valdez is a true patriot. Never forget 7-11... er I mean 911." The Kerry camp simply stated, "most young americans don't drink coffee, do you have any questions not related to coffee." Ralph Nader popular third party candidate had this to say. "Corporate America is pulling a fast one at the expense of the American consumer once again with cofee lids that could easily pop off scalding thousands, blinding hundreds."

Re:Demographic breakdown

[flyingsquid]

Meanwhile, Republicans prevented black people from entering 7-11s across the nation, as Democrats furiously worked to keep Ralph Nader cups out of the stores...

One problem with the 7-11 poll...

[Anonymous Coward]

The 7-11 poll only shows the popular vote. It would be nice if they broke it down to show electoral college votes -- you know the ones that matter.