That's hilarious!

Sure wish we had 7-Eleven here in Tennessee.

Of course, then McCain would be winning here.

I think the Mormon prohibition against hot beverages is probably giving Obama's campaign a false sense of security in Utah.

This is all rather interesting (especially the part about 7-11's cup poll accurately predicting previous winners).

Just two days ago, I finished reading David Pietrusza's book 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents. The non-fiction book puts a magnifying glass on the 1920 presidential campaign and features all sorts of interesting bits about the pop culture of the day. One such piece of information passed along was the role of Rexall Drug Stores in the early development of presidential polling.

During the early elections of the 20th century, the Rexall Drug Store chain would poll its customers on their election choices. The poll proved to be surprisingly accurate, even predicting Woodrow Wilson's narrow and crucial 1916 victory in California that sent him into a second term.

Throughout the book, I was constantly reading passages to the Mrs. and remarking on the odd similarities between the election of 1920 and the election of 2008. I suppose the Rexall/7-11 similarities shouldn't have surprised me. (By the way, the Rexall poll showed Harding in a landslide that year.)