Bruce the Blog

Okay, so impeach me, because that admittedly is a trick headline.

Let me explain. 7-Eleven is where I buy my coffee on the way to work.
There is a variety of brews that are hot and fresh and flavorful, it’s fast in-and-out, owner Ahmed Bash is always a friendly and talkative host, and you’re bound to see somewhere you know. What more do you need.

When I saw the red McCain and blue Obama cups that 7-Eleven hauled out to capitalize on election season, my guess was they weren’t popular with customers. Would a worker want to advertise a Presidential preference in front of the boss, who might be rooting for the other guy (or gal)? Shows how much (or little) I know.

Bash told me the cups are selling very well. At the convenience-store chain nationwide, he reported, Obama cups outsell McCain cups 60%-40%.

In Yorktown, though, McCain’s not so down in his cups: they runneth over Obama’s by about a 5% margin.

A couple miles up the road, as the crow flies, the students at Yorktown High School voted in a mock election that gave Obama a landslide margin of 66.8%, or 656 votes out of a total of 982 students and faculty polled by The Voice, the school’s award-winning paper (that is printed by our sister company, Chase Press).

The paper did a great job of breaking down the vote by grade and by class according to teacher. Sophomores gave Obama the smallest percentage, at 63.7%, while Staff ballots gave him the widest gap, at 72.7%.

One teacher’s classes nearly split the vote, with Obama garnering 60 votes to McCain’s 57, while in another teacher’s classes, McCain attraccted only 10 votes out of a total of 70.

Most surprising, considering the sky-high profile of Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the paper did not break out votes by gender.