McCain vs Obama in Coffee cup battle by 7-Eleven

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You can have your coffee by pouring coffee in certain color cup of Joe.  Yes, different coffee cup color mean different one you chose. 7-Eleven is running its 7-Election presidential coffee cup poll. The rule is simple, 7-Eleven coffee cup presidential poll asking customers to vote by choosing the color of their 20-ounce hot beverage cup.

7-Eleven coffee drinkers voice their pick for U.S. president in the informal poll by simply pouring their coffee into a red cup if they intend on voting for Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., or into a blue cup for Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

Poll starts in Wednesday and finish on Election Day, Nov. 4 2008. Anyone abstaining or undecided but still in need of caffeine can fill a regular 7-Eleven cup.

“7-Election is a warm-up for the real election on Nov. 4,” Joe DePinto, 7-Eleven president and chief executive, said in a statement. “While we don’t bill this as a statistically valid study by any means, it does reach Americans in their hometowns.”

The cups are tabulated at the register. National and state results will be posted daily at www.7-election.com.

In 2004, 50.7 percent of the U.S. voters picked George Bush, while 51 percent of 7-Eleven voters picked him. John Kerry received 48.3 percent of the U.S. vote, and 49 percent in the 7-Eleven vote.

In 2000, 51.2 percent of the 7-Eleven voters selected Bush. The U.S. vote was 47.9 percent to Al Gore’s 48.4 percent. Gore received 48.9 percent of the votes in the 7-Eleven poll.

7-Eleven says it sells more than a million cups of coffee a day.  7-Eleven says coffee is a nonpartisan beverage choice and notes it was named the national beverage by the First Continental Congress after the Boston Tea Party.

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September 30, 2008 | Filed Under coffee 

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2 Responses to “McCain vs Obama in Coffee cup battle by 7-Eleven”

  1. RE Ausetkmt on October 2nd, 2008 4:55 am

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