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Burger Poll Shows Americans Would Rather Eat A Burger With Obama Than Romney

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The Huffington Post     First Posted: 10/23/12 EDT Updated: 10/24/12 EDT

Last night's debate on foreign policy taught America that there's basically no difference between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney when it comes to drone strikes or policy in Syria. But a recent poll of 2094 Americans conducted by fast casual chain Smashburger suggests that there's a big difference between the two candidates in at least one other measure other than silly things like domestic policy and experience: their appeal as dining companions.

The Smashburger pollsters asked respondents which of the two presidential candidates they'd prefer to eat a burger with. National polls about actual voting may be close these days, but this one wasn't. President Obama won by a landside, with a whopping 59 percent of respondents saying they'd pick him as a dining partner and just 41 percent opting for Romney.

Obama's support was particularly strong among the young, those living in the Midwest and those living in the Northeast. Romney performed best with Southerners and the elderly.

The poll also asked which former president would be respondents' first pick for a burger companion. Bill Clinton -- an avowed burger fan for years before he became a vegan -- led this pack with 22 percent of the vote. Clinton was followed by Lincoln (15 percent), JFK and Ronald Reagan (14 percent) and then Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Theodore Roosevelt (5 percent).

This all may sound trivial -- and it obviously is, to some extent. But campaign teams actually spend a great deal of time and thought thinking about what Obama and Romney should eat on the campaign trail, often in an attempt to portray the candidates as folksy and relatable. So Obama's impressive victory in the burger poll -- if it can't be chalked up to some sort of skew in the sample -- could be a sign that his campaign has done a better job making him come off as a real person than Romney's has. Or it could just be a sign that a lot of Americans like to drink beer with their burgers, and don't like to drink alone.

 
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04:14 AM on 10/28/2012
Obama by far!!! I could not sit with Romney who hates almost half the nation and wants to destroy the recovery we have to go back to give 250,000 breaks for his rich buddys. I know in Ohio Romney hated the workers so much he pushed sb5 stripping Union rights for all workers and that is his model / playbook he thinks all blame is placed on the worker and the top gets golden parachute. Obama 2012 Romney 1040...
08:16 PM on 10/27/2012
This is why Romney will lose the election. People just don't like him.
06:36 PM on 10/27/2012
MR. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, he is Not of the school of thought that ONLY he, his Family/friends/& cohorts should even be able to afford to eat!!!!!
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undaunted8
Proud American, Father, Veteran, Democrat..
03:01 AM on 10/27/2012
You don't actually believe Lord romney would eat a ...a....ah....hamburger without a camera on him, do you?

As far as eating with him....I'm not even comfortable with him living in the same country with me, with my family and friends. He's loaded, after he gets buried in November maybe he'll take a nice long Saudi vacation with the bush klan...and yes, don't go away mad....just...go...away...
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HUFFPOST SUPER USER
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11:55 PM on 10/26/2012
Of course- Romney. Barry is a phony.
11:44 PM on 10/29/2012
Willard Mitt Romney doesn't even use his real name and half his sheep don't even know his real name lol... At least the haters know Obama's nick-name which just goes to show you know more about Obama than you do Flip Flop Mitt!
chuckl4826
Give the Country away.. Vote Democrat.!
05:34 PM on 10/25/2012
ROMNEY...... AOL never asked me..!
03:54 PM on 10/25/2012
I'd have to choose Romney..because just seeing Obama makes me want to throw up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqqz_KLU4Ys
08:33 PM on 10/28/2012
Get your barf bag ready for 4 more cos u are about to Hurl
Praise God!!!!