Whole Foods Will Fit Right In On Third Street
Based on this little nugget from The New York Times today (via Kottke), Whole Foods should fit rather nicely in its new home at Third and Third: Political clustering is reflected in religious participation and even shopping choices. David Wasserman, of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, recently calculated that 89 percent of the Whole Foods…
Based on this little nugget from The New York Times today (via Kottke), Whole Foods should fit rather nicely in its new home at Third and Third:
Political clustering is reflected in religious participation and even shopping choices. David Wasserman, of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, recently calculated that 89 percent of the Whole Foods stores in the United States were in counties carried by Barack Obama in 2008, while 62 percent of Cracker Barrel restaurants were in counties carried by John McCain.“If voters are seeking an explanation for hyper-partisanship and dysfunction, they ought to look down the street,” Mr. Wasserman said.
Except Whole Foods CEO John Mackey and management are outspoken critics of Barack Obama and strong supporters of conservative politics. I mean he often speaks about the “hysteria of global warming” and how there is no scientific basis for climate change. He is also a fierce opponent of unions. He’s been published on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal for crying out loud!
Cracker Barrel is often embroiled in sexual orientation and racial discrimination lawsuits, and has been fined for illegal campaign contributions to that confessed slave-owner Tom DeLay. So I guess that makes sense. Maybe I’m out of touch with the average Obama voter, but I have hard time believing that the average Whole Foods customer is an Obama-hating, global warming conspiracy theorizing Libertarian?!?
hmm so the people who are in the highest income demographic (whole foods shopper) vote for the guy who wants to raise taxes and “redistribute wealth” and the people in the middle and lower income demographic vote for the guy who wants to cut SS and medicare and refuses to raise taxes including on dead multi-millionaires.
I think the reason for our governments dysfunction is clear = the voters are nuts.