Our Election Cocktail, The Margin of Error

 

Along with every poll about the 2024 presidential election, you saw the same words: margin of error. What does this mean? It’s a number pollsters use to estimate how wrong their survey results could be. 

 

This also means you need a drink that you can make quickly and that allows for a mistake or miscalculation without ruining your drink. In other words, a cocktail with a large Margin of Error. This easy cocktail mixes the smoky, toasty flavors of whiskey with the sweet citrus and floral honey notes of the elderflower liqueur.

The 2024 Presidential Election was close, confusing, and nerve-wracking, part of the reason we made this cocktail to soothe our souls. But one of the comforting things about history is that it often repeats itself. Throughout history, there have been some real nail-biters of races. 1960 election polls had John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon tied at 47 percent. Kennedy won with only the slimmest of margins. More recently, the 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore was another extremely contentious race that set the groundwork for the political climate in the early aughts. Bush lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote after the Supreme Court had to settle the election results. 

 

Even way, way back in the day, elections got testy. In 1876, the election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden came down to a single electoral vote, which Hayes won. This is complex, rage-inducing stuff! All the more reason to drown your sorrows in deliciousness. For another political cocktail, try the He Said/She Said cocktail if in fall 2024 you were watching those stats closely to see how they matched up with the candidates’ words. Remember to be a responsible news consumer and use sites like AllSides and Ground News to fact-check information you get about all elections, especially if you’re imbibing while consuming that media…