Amusingly the pundits in the race for the US Democratic nomination have begun dividing the support groups in terms of beer or wine camps.

Bush’s “man with the plan”, Karl Rove kicked off a storm postulating how “Mrs. Clinton won the beer drinkers, Mr. Obama the white wine crowd. And there are more beer drinkers than wine swillers in the Democratic Party” in a Washington Post piece whilst the Toronto Star concluded that “Democrats are engaged in a race between what is known as the “beer track,” made up of more pragmatic, middle-class voters concerned with pocketbook issues represented by Clinton, and the “wine track,” the more upscale, liberal Democratic class represented by Obama”

So, perhaps surprisingly, the African-American Senator Obama is pulling in the well-to-do, supposedly more sophisticated swathe of the electorate, whilst the ‘establishment’ white woman from Washington is mopping up votes in the rural areas and blue-collar suburbs.

Could Hillary really be just an ‘uptown girl’?!