Caught this one off the Reuters line ....
 
Reuter
 
     MOSCOW - The more a Russian drinks, the more likely he or she is to
support President Boris Yeltsin, according to an opinion poll published in
the communist opposition newspaper Pravda Thursday.
 
     The newspaper said its poll, carried out by the influential VTsIOM
pollsters, questioned 2,404 people and showed that those who drank alcohol
every day were 50 percent more likely to back Yeltsin than those who did not.
 
     Abstainers or those who drank rarely were more likely to be proud of the
Soviet years, and less likely to seek further economic reforms, the paper
said.
 
     Yeltsin himself has long been viewed as a man who enjoyed his vodka, but
Kremlin aides say he does not have a drinking problem.