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This article was published on 09.22.16

Would you want your business identified with the two most disliked presidential candidates in history? In the past, 7-Eleven has put the names of presidential candidates Obama, McCain and Romney on its coffee cups and posted the tallies as the coffee-drinking demographic made its choices. But this year they must pick cups that read DEMOCRAT or REPUBLICAN. There is also a “SPEAK UP” cup that means—well, who knows? It seems to have replaced the INDPEPENDENT/UNDECIDED 2012 cup. But so far it’s leading.

Would you want your business identified with the two most disliked presidential candidates in history? In the past, 7-Eleven has put the names of presidential candidates Obama, McCain and Romney on its coffee cups and posted the tallies as the coffee-drinking demographic made its choices. But this year they must pick cups that read DEMOCRAT or REPUBLICAN. There is also a “SPEAK UP” cup that means—well, who knows? It seems to have replaced the INDPEPENDENT/UNDECIDED 2012 cup. But so far it’s leading.

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