Chart: Does Your Choice Of Booze Reveal Your Politics?

Foodspin ^ | 01/06/14 | Reuben Fischer-Baum

[thetallguy24]

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.

[Calvin Locke]

Gin's generally great.

Seagram's gin is awful. IIRC, it has cilantro in it, and I have a genetically superior sense of taste that allows its bitter aldehydes (those with pedestrian taste buds call it "hypersensitivity") to pierce through and overpower all the other botanicals.

I don't drink the bottom swill of anything, unless it's a tasty value, and I can't think of any bottom priced vodkas, whiskeys or gins that are worth it, unfortunately. (Or is that fortunately?)

That's not to say that you're guaranteed taste value for higher priced booze. I'll pass on Absolut for a lower priced vodka.

[WayneS]

I only drink gin when I can’t find my favorite brand of varnish remover.

[virgil]

I prefer drier light wines like pinot grigio, noir and beaujeaulais. All European wines. The heavy red wines bother my stomach. Sadly, I have not found an American wine that I can tolerate. They’ve all given me headaches.

[WayneS]

Beam is on there.

It’s all the way to the right.

[Jack Black]

Jack Black - the most popular Right Wing skewing liquor.

[Jack Black]

Jack Daniels aka Jack Black - the most popular Right Wing liquor.

And the one my handle was taken from many years ago.

[Jack Black]

Try the Oregon pino-gris. They are very like their Italian counterparts.

[Marcella]

My sister-in-law drinks wine from the time she gets home from work until she goes to bed. I was just told yesterday that her lung problem she has had for a year, been in the hospital a few times for this, and one night was put on a respirator to keep enough oxygen getting to her brain, is Atypical Tuberculosis. She is weak and getting out of bed is exhausting for her but she is going to work every day. They had her on steroids for awhile so her resistance to disease is also down.

Since that diagnosis a week ago, she has to take several antibiotics every day for a year to see if that stops the problem. That is the current treatment for that disease. The doc said the cure rate is somewhere between 40-70%.

The really bad news is a couple of these antibiotics cannot be mixed with alcohol so medically she cannot drink for at least a whole year. We are talking about her living or dying so she cannot drink. How does one suddenly stop one day and never drink another drop for at least a year? I wonder if she can do it as she drank wine every single day.

I hate this happened to her but it did. The docs have no idea how she could have gotten this disease as this type is not contagious.

Have any of you just stopped drinking one day and never drank another drop?

[Calvin Locke]

Reminds me of the old story about ...

Mike Dukakis. He was sucking up to a couple of reps of some blue collar unions, and invited them over to his place. Asks them it they would like a beer, and he comes back with a single bottle and two glasses.

Then again, Dukakis's wife was an alky. So much so she hit the rubbing alcohol one day. It is possible that either he was minimizing the alcohol in the home, or Kitty got to it ahead of the meeting.

Of course, Dukakis thinks he always knows what is best for "the" people...and was demonstrating his keen sense of tone-deafness beyond his experience.

[Vigilanteman]

We’ll have to wait until pot starts having its brands differentiated to see?

[libstripper]

Gin is my choice for Bloody Marys. Adds a bit of flavor that vodka doesn’t.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I don’t see long neck Bud in the Red so the whole thing is bogus. :-)

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Interesting that you say that because:

Sensimillia
Acapulco Gold
Maui Wowie
Red Bud

are all “brands” from my early life (ending in 1978).
Today there are many others (more potent by an order of magnitude)
and bolstered by the differing variations of “hash”
(THC stripped from the parts of the plant and “concentrated”).

I’m just sayin’...

[Vigilanteman]

All street names. But until they government makes money off them by collecting a fee for registering a commercial brand, they will remain non-commercialized even if the marijuana aficionados can differentiate.

[advertising guy]

and today’s bong water is now potable

[doorgunner69]

Yeah, how many liberals are going to pony up the cost of Patron?

[dmz]

Vodka = democrats. Not surprised. They also like political philosophies from Russia.

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I’d be a lot more concerned about Malibu Coconut showing on the GOP side.

[RandallFlagg]

Either martinis aren’t that popular anymore, or that list is kinda skrooed up.

[virgil]

I’ll give them a try. Thanks.

[vetvetdoug]

BS. I drink gin and tonic and I’m so far to the right the left can see me coming from the other side.