What can we learn from Muffin Break's 'Bean Poll'

Nights · Oct 29, 2026 · 11m

As we close in on election day on November 7, it feels like there's a new poll, with a new set of numbers, coming out every other day. But there's one poll that boasts of having a pretty good track record since it began in 2002. I am, of course, talking about the Muffin Break Bean Poll . . . Buy a coffee at one of the more than 30 Muffin Break cafes around the country and you get a bean to cast your vote. And it's got a pretty decent track record. In 2023, the Bean Poll had National on 35 percent. On election day, they got 38 percent. Not bad for a coffee bean. And before the 2020 election…