A look at the final polls

By OWEN MORRIS

As voters turn out in scores today, we can already get a good idea of where this election is headed, thanks to 7-Eleven.

Before you laugh look at this statistic:

2000 Election

George W. Bush: US Voters: 47.9 percent, 7-Eleven Voters: 51percent

Al Gore: US Voters: 48.4 percent, 7-Eleven Voters: 49 percent

2004 Election

George W. Bush: US Voters: 50.7 percent, 7-Eleven Voters: 51percent

John Kerry: US Voters: 48.3 percent, 7-Eleven Voters: 49 percent

For three out of those four candidates 7-Eleven voters coffee drinkers came within one point of picking the actual vote percentage.

So who does 7-Eleven have in the lead this year? John McCain trails Barrack Obama by 20 points! In fact, McCain does not lead in a single state where 7-Eleven is carrying the cups, including Texas (Obama +24), Idaho (Obama +9) and McCain’s home-state of Arizona. (Obama +16.)

Obama leads McCain by 16 points in Kansas and 30 points in Missouri.

Things don’t look too good for McCain in The Flying Saucer’s presidential poll either. Drinkers could pay $5 for a mug bearing a photo of their candidate at any of the 13 Flying Saucers nationwide, with the bar keeping track of the total number of pints sold. Obama leads 12,706 glasses to McCain’s 10,073, or 55.7 percent to 44.3 percent, which is much nearer to what “real pollsters” are projecting than 7-Eleven’s total, though Kansas City’s Flying Saucer is more skewed towards the 7-Eleven poll and has Obama winning 63.5 percent to 36.5 percent.