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Which Political Reporters Are the Most Over-Caffeinated?

Though it's bit of a wind up ahead of the reporting madness that will be tonight's Super Tuesday primary results, let that not stop was from ogling at the terrible number of caffeinated beverages those reporting on it are drinking.

By Dino Grandoni
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How do reporters get through this never-ending primary season? Coffee and caffeinated drinks, of course. As his colleagues steel themselves for today's Super Tuesday coverage, Yahoo News' Dylan Stableford offers a fun piece with the the tongue-in-cheek headline, Campaign reporters and their crippling caffeine addiction, in which he presents a series of over-caffeinated humblebrags from coffee- and soda-loving reporters.

Here's a brief look of several reporters' preferred fueling up methods. We'd suggest they take a moment to study caffeine's connection to heart disease, but judging from how much they drink, we're not sure they'd be able to focus on it very long:

  • Carl Cameron, Fox News: 5 servings of caffeine, at least; "a large coffee with a shot of espresso followed by no fewer than three Red Bulls."
  • McKay Coppins, BuzzFeed: 5 Diet Cokes, "preferring that to Diet Pepsi, since Coke has more caffeine." He says: "I've resigned myself to the slow descent into obesity and caffeine addiction."
  • Chuck Todd, NBC News: 4-5 "grande size cups a day." He says: "It's close to having an actual coffee I.V."
  • Dylan Byers, Politico: 3 iced coffees.
  • Wolf Blitzer, CNN: 1 "Venti skim latte every morning"

Read the rest of Stableford's article here.

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