Resharper certainly thinks so, and out of the box it will nag you to convert
Dooberry dooberry = new Dooberry();
to
var doo
I'm seeing a pattern for stackoverflow success: dig up old CodingHorror posts and (Jeopardy style) phrase them in terms of a question.
I plead innocent! But you're right, this seemed to be a relatively popular little question.