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Florida Polling organization based in Pinellas County, Florida
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You can blame Clorox, 7-Eleven and French fries for the DST extension apparently...
In the mid-1980s, Clorox and 7-Eleven provided the primary funding for the Daylight Saving Time Coalition behind the 1987 extension to US DST. Both senators from Idaho, Larry Craig and Mike Crapo, voted for it based on the premise that fast-food restaurants sell more French fries (made from Idaho potatoes) during DST. The other would be something that we actually did when we looked at economic benefits. I remember the fast food industry, Hardees, looked at the first week of May versus the last week of April, Standard Time versus Daylight Saving Time, and they were blown away when they saw the difference. They saw an increase in sales of $880 per store per week on the last week of Standard versus first week of Daylight Saving Time, and as a result, McDonalds and a lot of those organizations became extremely active in our effort to pick up April. I was able to get both Idaho senators to vote for Daylight Saving Time on the basis of selling more French fries because they supply potatoes. So it is kind of humorous and you can laugh at it, but it shows that I was able to get two votes from Idaho based on French fries and connected it to Daylight Saving Time. And if you can see the economic patterns as being highly complex and all these unintended consequences, I suggest that the energy issue may be every bit as complex, that you will push it down here, and it will pop up over here for another reason.
October 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Somebody is polling for the 2026 #StPete Mayor's race today:
October 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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This is the first poll I've gotten for next year's Mayor of St Petersburg, FL. Interesting slate of candidates they've chosen here. (Additional questions about Brandi Gabbard were asked after this): #StPete
Hypothetical candidates for Mayor of St Petersburg, FL, USA in the 2026 Mayoral Primary Election
August 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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A reminder of how it went at the top of the ballot in Pinellas County in 2020, Biden won by 0.2% of the vote, and that was with DEMs having a 0.7% party registration advantage in the county at the time.
November 4, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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With Early voting all done, here are the current pre-election-day turnout %s for #Pinellas: The DEMs turnout % is slightly better with only a 4.7% lesser share of overall voter turnout so far compared to the 5.6% voter registration advantage that the GOP has in the county,
November 4, 2024 at 1:58 PM