September 21, 2008
Are you ready for some football with Barack Obama?

From the "Things That Should't Matter But Probably Do Anyway" department, more people would rather watch football with Barack Obama than John McCain. One can only presume that this would also involve beer drinking, since as we know that is the real measure of one's presidentiariness.


Obama was the pick over McCain by a narrow 50 percent to 47 percent, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll released Friday that generally mirrored each presidential candidate's strengths and weaknesses with voters. Women, minorities, younger and unmarried people were likelier to prefer catching a game with Obama while men, whites, older and married people would rather watch with McCain.

"I think he'd be fun to sit back with and hear his experiences, all his stories," said Kyle Ferguson, 28, a Republican from Santa Rosa, Calif., who picked McCain. But reflecting a sense some voters have of McCain based on the complaints of a few Senate colleagues, he added warily, "I bet he'd probably get pretty angry and lit up if his team was losing."


I guess even a stupid and pointless exercise like this can contain a nugget of truth now and again. Make of it what you will.

UPDATE: Chad finds the deeper meaning.

Posted by Charles Kuffner on September 21, 2008 to The making of the President
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