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Blue or red? Fun polls give voters a voice
Posted: 11.02.2012 at 11:24 AM
Justin Chambers

Justin Chambers is an anchor and meteorologist for FOX21 Morning News.

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Choosing your cup at 7-Eleven is one way to have fun "voting" in this year's election.  / FOX21: Mike Byrum
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SOUTHERN COLORADO -- With election day just four days away, it's coming down to the wire for the presidential candidates. While millions will vote inside voting booths next Tuesday, southern Colorado residents are already making their voices heard in "other" ways.
 
From free airline trips on Jet Blue, to red and blue cups at 7-Eleven, to the rubberized versions of the candidates faces, this election is anything but normal.
 
Nandhip Kumar, owner of a local 7-Eleven,  said people are getting involved in the company's "7 election.”

“The cup that sold the most was the winner, so they like to continue that trend,” Kumar said.
 
For the third presidential election in a row, people are voting with their coffee cups.
 
“When they do buy those cups, they have pretty much made up their mind," Kumar said. "They are hardcore believers in their parties." 

For coffee drinkers, it's all about the red or the blue, but you know Colorado is a swing state, and that means you can get your Slurpees in purple.
 
But if you're not into voting in person, Jet Blue will let you get out of the country; that is if your candidate "loses.”
 
All of the political ads may scare you so, what better way to scare up some votes than with Halloween masks.
 
“This is such a big election. A lot of people don’t want to wear the mask because they are afraid someone’s going to see them on the street and are afraid something’s going to happen to them," Anika Bailey said.
 
Bailey is one of the assistant managers at Spirit Halloween store. She says people have fun with the masks, but don't necessarily take them home.
 
“They'll try on the mask and take pictures with it, as far as people dressing up, it's not that many,” Bailey said.
 
But people are making their voices heard online.
 
“They have the little scan thing you take a picture with, and then it shows you who's in the lead. We just checked it and Obama's in the lead, then it's Romney then it's Batman.”
 
Wait a minute...did she say Batman?
 
“People want Batman as their president,” explains Bailey.
 
While these polls are very "un" scientific, for both the coffee cups and the Halloween masks, President Obama is currently leading in those polls.

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