Odd presidential election predictors
Who needs polls and political science models when you have squirrels and cookies to predict elections?
7-Eleven coffee cups: Convenience store 7-Eleven lets coffee drinkers proclaim their candidate of choice based on the cups they select. The company freely admits the poll is completely unscientific, but it has correctly predicted election results since 2000. As of Tuesday, Obama was ahead 59 percent to 41 percent.
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