The Ultimate Metaphor for Obama Closing the Gap

I remember many pundits referring to a split before between the dunkin-donuts Democrats and the Starbucks-latte Democrats.

Find out what changed below the flip....

Yes!! Dunkin Donuts has started to serve lattes!!! GOBAMA!!!!

•  Puerto Rico Governor to endorse Obama

  Political

  by Kitty on Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 08:01:26 AM PDT

•  LOL - good catch

  Obama: the candidate for post-coffee America

  by johnsloan on Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 08:06:03 AM PDT

•  It Actually Get Worse

  A couple weeks ago McDonald’s said they are planning to start hiring baristas and dropping espresso machines in 14,000 of their fast-food outlets.

  Now I am a coffee snub so I almost always make my own. But when I am in a hurry sometimes I head to McDonalds cause I live in a small town and the closest Starbucks  is 20 minutes away. I have to admit that recently McDonalds actually started to make an OK cup of coffee.

  by webranding on Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 08:10:17 AM PDT

•  Latte drinking republicans plus cowboys

  Where does this meme come from anyway? In the last five years I've been to Montgomery, Alabama, Mobile, Memphis, Arkansas, and Canton Ohio, all places with , gasp, lattes and often Starbucks. They can't all be living off of a subsection of democrats--or do they mean the early morning construction crowd that shows up in pickups to fire up for the day? In Mason City Iowa, there is an espresso stand in their downtown mall that does great business selling coffee from Caffe D'Art of Seattle.

  And in Klamath Falls, Oregon, cowboys are lined up to buy their monday morning mochas at an epsresso stand on one of their main drags, and believe me, the guys in cowboy hats and boots are not big Dem supporters. It's solid shrub country.

  by marketgeek on Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 08:17:16 AM PDT

  •  Long hair used to be an indicator

    and then was adopted by Republicans.  

    Then...

    Lacking a culture of their own... ;-)

    by ogre on Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 08:33:03 AM PDT

  •  "Security moms" can't live without Starbucks

    In my town, you don't have to look very hard to find one of the local women at the wheel of her SUV sipping her Starbucks while shlepping the kids around.

    by Dump Terry McAuliffe on Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 08:47:40 AM PDT

•  Mickey D's also sells lattes

  Oddly, I saw many more billboards for McDonald's lattes in solidly Republican territory in west Michigan than I do in the Detroit area.

  by Dump Terry McAuliffe on Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 08:45:45 AM PDT