THE INEVITABLE BBQ POLL LEADS US TO THE INEVITABLE BBQ DAYDREAM
July 2nd, 2008, 1:40 pm · 4 Comments · posted by Dan Lehr
WASHINGTON (AP) - Which of the top presidential candidates would you prefer having at your summer cookout?
An Associated Press-Yahoo News Poll finds that people who were surveyed would rather barbecue burgers with Barack Obama than John McCain, by a 52 percent to 45 percent margin.
Men are about evenly divided between the two while women prefer Obama by 11 percentage points. Obama is a more popular guest with younger voters while McCain does best with the oldest.
Party label means a lot, with three-quarters of Democrats picking Obama and the same number of Republicans picking McCain. Independents are about evenly split.
The AP-Yahoo News survey of 1,759 adults was conducted online by Knowledge Networks from June 13-23 and had an overall margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.3 percentage points. The margin of sampling error for subgroups was larger.
Fooey! Vote08 doesn’t believe in false choices! I love that the premise of this quadrennial poll is that you actually have to make a choice among these candidates, as if they’re knocking on your door & you can only let one of them in. Let’s have a 4th-of-July-Eve-Eve fantasy in which ALL of the recent presidential candidates stop by for a bite, shall we?
Okay, fellow barbecue lovers! Let’s hear from you! Which candidate(s) would you like to see at your 4th-of-July barbecue, & what specific dish would you ask them to bring? We eagerly await your comments!
ADDENDUM: (from the Wall Street Journal, March 2nd)
“McCain, dressed in a sweatshirt with a family photo embossed and jeans, spent much of the afternoon turning ribs and chicken over the grill on the wraparound deck of his cabin. He happily disclosed his recipe: a dry rub made up of one-third black pepper, one-third garlic powder and one-third salt. Fresh lemon juice is squeezed over the ribs during a slow cook. The slow cook, he assured observers, allows all the fat to drip away. He promised skeptical eaters that the ribs were practically fat free.”
UPDATE: I asked the entire newsroom to give their responses. Here’s what I have so far:
“You can imagine that I’d love to have Senator Clinton at my next backyard BBQ. I feel confident she shouldn’t be asked to contribute to the meal… but I’m equally confident that the conversation would fill my constant hunger for stimulating conversation. How ’bout seeing what you can arrange?”
“Most elected politicians could supply/bring their own “pork” at your expense of course.”
What say you?
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Even opening it up to all candidates, I’d still have to go with Obama.
Follow up question: Which candidate would you trust to watch over the grill while you made a beer run?
Might have to go with Fred Thompson for that one.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:57 pm
I think I’d go with McCain, Eric.
McCain is a known griller, & he seems to me to be the guy who has a time-honored grilling technique that gets down to the second. (”184 seconds after turning, lightly baste the ribs…”)
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:49 pm
One would have to go to an elitist country club with highbrow limousine liberals to sup with BHO. Even then they probably wouldn’t have something as proletarian as barbeque.
I’d much rather chew on ribs and roastin’ ears with President Bush. I would also prefer him to be my Commander and Chief when murdering fascists are plotting the demise of the West.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:19 pm
I don’t give a rat’s *** about who wins the BBQ poll. How stupid. Now which candidate would you choose to teach your Political Science class might have some correlation to who Americans want to be President. Definitely not Obama on foreign affairs because if he were invited he’d go to Osama Bin Laden’s BBQ. Instead of pork it would likely consist of barbequed Americans.