Beer and politics don't mix, or so they say ... but according to a recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, you're libation of choice may say something about your political leanings. The data from the poll, conducted by phone in March of this year, seems to suggest that beer drinkers lean slightly toward the presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain, while wine-drinkers seem to favor either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.

Last week I asked beerphilosopher.com readers which Presidential candidate they'd most like to have a beer with and the results of the poll were very interesting, indeed! The poll basically came down to a two-way race between the junior Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama and Republican outsider, Ron Paul. Not the two I would have thought would be slugging it out for beer-drinking dominance. With 50 total votes, the next closest candidate was John McCain with a total of only 8 votes.

As you can see, Barack and Ron pulled ahead by a substantial margin in our little poll, leaving everyone else in the politicized dust. Since there can be only one winner, however (unless we were to take it to court, of course), we congratulate Senator Barack Obama for being the candidate beerphilosopher.com readers cite as the hopeful with whom they'd most like to imbibe in a good beer. I wonder if this also translates to the candidate that most readers would also like to see take the White House in '08? Since no one, save for my wife, left a comment about their vote, I guess I'll never know!

Anyway, congrats Barack. Sorry, there's no prize involved.