A More Reasonable Way to Understand the Electorate

  Since Oktober Fest is nigh upon us and it overlaps with the final lap of the US Presidential Election Season, it seems fit that we rethink the lenses through the electorate is observed and understood. Via Monkey Cage we have this great graph and post on the history of beer and politics. It is interesting to note which ideologies skew toward what brands of beer and what that may say about ideas on domestic and foreign policy. I have no idea if drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon connotes a belief in "legitimate rape" or if drinking Sam Adams suggests a Libertarian investment in the Sovereign Citizen's Movement. I will leave that for more sober minds to consider. Yet what I do know and what warms my heart is, despite the divisions in the vision of what this country should be, it is (ahem) refreshing to know that certain things remain common to us all.