What Your Beer Says About Your Politics

National Journal ^ | 9-27-12 | Mike Shannon and Will Feltus

[Brookhaven]

Full story at link, but the chart tells you everything you need for discussion.

[traditional1]

Sam Adams Boston Lager........I’m in the right quadrant with it, too.

[JRandomFreeper]

Lots of stuff on that chart that ain't really beer. Like Bud Lite.

/johnny

[Bitsy]

And, I am sure they drink their Coronas with a wedge of lime.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Root beer says you liked Santorum.

[vetvetdoug]

Magnolia Brewery, Kiln, Ms or Shiner Bock, Shiner, Tx

[mnehring]

I’m all over that chart.

[Smokin' Joe]

Can’t be real. No Pabst Blue Ribbon...

[Natufian]

No way! I’m a guinness man and I’ve got the belly to prove it.

[a fool in paradise]

So only Republicans are American Light Beer drinkers?

Pffft.

And those Mexican beers are drank by Mexican voters (and some Mexican food snobs) who may or may not turn out to vote.

[FewsOrange]

Anything with the word Light or Lite in it, isn’t beer.

[DuncanWaring]

+1

[mnehring]

BTW, I don’t know of any libs who actually drink Guinness. They buy it and hold the glass, sometimes faking a sip to appear ‘international’ but they don’t actually drink it. Too strong for their weak sensibilities.

[Walrus]

And where, may I ask, is Yuengling?

[DManA]

PBR me ASAP - I got to git me to the vot’n room.

[frogjerk]

I recognize the brands but not really much real beer on that graphic

[bmwcyle]

It did not say free beer. If that was the case all of us would be all over the chart.

[skeeter]

No Pabst Blue Ribbon...

Hipsters don't vote.

[rarestia]

Sam Adams seasonal brews or Sammy Light for default.

This chart is def. right!

[TurboZamboni]

Sometimes you need ID to buy beer, so this eliminates all democrats and the chart is irrelevant.

[InsidiousMongo]

The graph is about as BS as their polling. I drink Heineken, Stella, Dos Equis, and Guiness, yet I’m about as Conservative as they come. The person who created that needed to have some sense knocked into them, or quit drinking while writing these things for the MSM.

[mnehring]

No Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Liquified cardboard boxes don't count as beer.

[bagadonutz]

Low turnout republican beers are the absolutely worse. I plan on getting tanked on Heineken and pulling the Romney lever myself.

[a fool in paradise]

A picture is worth a thousand words.

If you are a metrosexual who routinely sticks his pinkie out while drinking beers, you may find yourself voting for Obama on election day.

[Roses0508]

And where, may I ask, is Yuengling?

My question exactly.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I brew my own strong ale.

[B Knotts]

Where’s homebrew?

[Molon Labbie]

Schlitz Malt Liquor will make your voter turnout thicker.

Lol.

[GeronL]

and non-drinkers?

[gunnyg]

Make mine Alltech’s Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale (KBBA) !!!!!
If I can’t find it, I’ll brew it myself!!!!!

Semper Great Beer!
*****

[Drill Thrawl]

And where, may I ask, is Yuengling?

Pottsville, PA. Duh! :-)

America's largest brewer. Loves me that Vitamin Y.

[cotton1706]

This doesn’t mean a damn thing. I love Corona and haven’t missed an election.

[howlinhound]

All my beer ever says is “Drink Me!”

[HenryArmitage]

careful, i see BlueMoon in upper right. I’ve seen no beer more fruit-ed than that one.

[Liberty Valance]

Without Shiner Bock on the list ... it’s not a list.

[albie]

Amazing! My wife and I love every beer in the upper right except “Amstel Light” and “MGD 64”. Where’s the PBR?

[dragonblustar]

What? No Land Shark or Killians?

[null and void]

[rarestia]

Guinness has been promoted by Mens Health magazine for years as a “sensible” beer at “only” 125 calories per bottle/can/glass.

I personally LOVE black and tans (Guinness and Harp), but I don’t drink them nearly as much as I do Sam Adams brands.

[Delhi Rebels]

I drink Leinenkugel. I guess that makes me a Libertarian.

[ConservativeInPA]

Yuengling must be a conservative beer. I drink it and I assume you drink it. My conservative friends drink it.

I also drink Sam Adams and occasionally some micro-brews. Most of the time I drink bourbon, either straight or with rocks. I don’t know any liberals that drink bourbon, but I don’t make it a habit to drink with liberals.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Where are the Hefeweizen drinkers? What about the Irish Ale drinkers? This chart is incomplete!!!

[Vaquero]

Sam Adams? I dont drink any beer favored by Red Sox fans.

[a fool in paradise]

Similarly, pollsters sometimes ask the question, "Who would you rather have a beer with?" to gauge which candidate has the likeability edge.

Romney doesn't drink beer and Bush gave it up later in life.

I wouldn't want to hang with a douchebag like Obama even if I got an invite to the White House.

[neveralib]

The graph is about as BS as their polling. I drink Heineken, Stella, Dos Equis, and Guiness, yet I’m about as Conservative as they come

Likewise. I drink only Becks or if not available, Heineken and I'm to the "right" of Jen-Jis (as the bottom-feeding, Traitor, John Kerry pronounces it) Khan.

[rarestia]

Make mine Alltech’s Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale (KBBA)

UGH!!! NO! I bought a 6 pack of this stuff on the recommendation of a "beer aficionado" and didn't make it through the first bottle.

Bourbon and beer do not belong together.

[2001convSVT]

Sam Adams here also, especially the seasonal brews.

[Brookhaven]

Did anyone else notice the upper left hand quadrant (Democrats that vote) has a huge gap? The left side of that quadrant is blank.

It looks to me like those that identify strongly as a Democrat and who vote (in other words: the people that are actively involved in the Democratic party) as a statistical group don’t drink beer at all.

Maybe the old saw about the Democratic party being run by elitist wine drinking snobs is true after all.

[showme_the_Glory]

Where the heck is Shiner???

[AFreeBird]

Ditto!