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By Patrick Appel
Beer retains its lead. Nate Silver thinks it could be the sleeper issue of 2008."}],"categories":[],"advertisingInfo":{"disableHouseAd":false,"__typename":"AdvertisingInfo"},"leadArt":null,"embeds":[],"editorsNote":null}}

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