Beer: April 2008 Archives

One of the things polls often show is relationships between seemingly unrelated groups of folks and their views. File this one under Awesome:

If you are male and a Led Zeppelin fan, chances are you may be leaning toward voting Republican in the U.S. presidential election, according to a survey of rock radio fans released on Wednesday.

That followed for classic rock in general - but fans of 80's and 90's alternative radio liked Obama. No mention of death metal or yodeling.

Rock on, dudes.

Maybe related, or maybe not - The apparent point to this meandering story is that the Associated Press was unable to find any significant dirt on John McCain after reviewing "thousands of pages of campaign, personal finance, real estate and property records nationwide". The secondary message is that the McCain family is a beer family, which dovetails nicely with the poll above. Combine the two, and maybe we're seeing the beginnings of the customary painting of Republican voters with the flyover-country-trailer-trash brush we see every four years or so.

After all, it's easy to imagine rock and rollers as beer drinkers. Fans of Depeche Mode or Flock of Seagulls? Not so much.