The politics of beer

>>> in addition to the paper napkins, which she usually takes, we brought cloth napkins as well. we have a white house m&m's. we have a deck of marine one playing cards. some white house beer.

>> that's president obama and the first lady bringing a few little treats to "the view" this week. the white house special honey ale. it sounds good. it's not just president obama . george washington also brewed his own. fdr repealed prohibition and said it was a good time for a beer. it's no wonder we see politicians throwing them back out on the campaign trail. pollsters are known to ask who would you rather have a beer with? maybe the more important question is, what kind of beer? a national journal piece is getting a lot of buzz, no pun intended. it's called what your beer says about your politics, analyzing more than 200,000 interviews to find out which beer brands are associated with what political brands. guys, from that survey they found from their very scientific and important research i would add, top republican beers are amstel light , sam adams , coors light . top democratic bierce, heineken, corona, stella artois .

>> european.

>> and dos equis, busch, and fosters.

>> i was thinking of miller high life when they were taking orders earlier. if they don't have, i'll go with whatever you got.

>> so coors light . that's what you go with when you take whatever you can get.

>> this is the republican beer and i was trying to remember why it was. it's pete coors always did the ads. tried to parlay it into a senate seat in colorado and was defeated.

>> they gave a ton of money to republican and conservative causes.

>> miller high life , champagne of pierce.

>> s.e., what's going on?

>> i'm beerless.

>> is this in honor of mitt romney ?

>> no.

>> apropos.

>> my beer of choice is babst blue ribbon which because i live in an elitist city like new york is hard to find here. so they couldn't get it for me. but i do have an amazing memory, i'm a packer fan, so going to lambeau, having a pabst blue ribbon in a can at curly's grill with a plate of cheese kurds was maybe one of the greatest days of my life.

>> perhaps stereotypical of a northeastern liberal, i prefer a nice california merlot. i'm a little classier than some other cyclists here.

>> clsyer.

>> i opted for the more elite beverage.

>> pure class over there.

>> because i'm a great patriot, sam adams which is actually a republican beer apparently.

>> you're close to the aisle there.

>> but i don't believe it because the true patriots here.

>> also, there are three people from massachusetts here and the one who is not from massachusetts takes the sam adams .

>> weird.

>> i'm going blue state , california.

>> about as far from massachusetts as you can get.

>> but it's americana.

>> i want to throw in the ring hat tip to brian, i do like dos equis or dos equis. i like the commercials, the most interesting man.

>> the oldest man at the club. that's what he is.

>> no.

>> such a weirdo. he creeps me out.

>> those ads were great at the beginning. what they started doing was they took the old chuck norris things and started applying them to him.

>> good little lines.

>> yorgeoriginally it was great.

>> maybe it spoke to my republican brain, i love it, dos equ equis.

>> can we figure out if we can drink on the air?

>> yes, wem.

>> don't open that now that you have just shaken it.

>> i'm opening it.

>> whoo!

>> cheers to the debates.

>> enjoy, all. i'm left out as usual.

>> the wide mouth.

>> to the liberal elite . and the media.

>> i'm going to finish this by -- who is doing the rant today?

>> i am.

>> i'm going to be --

>> we're just going to chug while toure is ranting. enough,