STOP THE PRESSES NOW!!! Important Election Update WOOHOO WOOHOO WOOHOO WOOHOO.....

[LynneSin]

Michelle Obama Wins Critical First Lady Cookie Contest


Every presidential election, Family Circle magazine hosts a cookie contest between the two potential first ladies. And this bake-off isn’t just a quaint exercise in to prove a prospective First Lady’s homemaker bona fides: the magazine has correctly predicted the results of four out of five elections. This year’s winner? Michelle Obama.

(MORE: A History of Strange Election Prognosticators)

Obama and Ann Romney both submitted recipes to the magazine; more than 9,000 people weighed in and the results were a squeaker. “Just 287 votes separated the two women, our smallest margin ever,” Family Circle reports. Romney’s M&M cookies got 48.5 percent of votes, while Obama’s white and dark chocolate chip cookies won with 51.5 percent.

The magazine has hosted a contest every election since 1992, when Hillary Clinton and Barbara Bush faced off. The only year that Family Circle‘s bake off failed to predict the winner was when Cindy McCain’s oatmeal-butterscotch cookies bested Obama’s recipe for lemon and orange shortbread cookies in 2008. However, rumors swirled that McCain had cheated by copying a recipe off of a Hershey’s box.



Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/02/michelle-obama-wins-critical-first-lady-cookie-contest/#ixzz28Hb8Pa6U

My guess is Ann Romney probably had one of her cooks give her the recipe since I suspect Ann has never seen inside a kitchen other than to yell at the staff.

[MichiganVote]

1. YOU people have all the recipe's you need to get

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Stop it! This is hard.

You want to try it? Get in the ring.

[trof]

3. It was the 'white and dark' chocolate chips that turned people off.

"ALL WHITE" chips would have won in a landslide.

[Summer Hathaway]

4. The reason Anne didn't win the competition

is because she told the judges they could only taste her cookies after they'd already declared her the winner.

[mindwalker_i]

5. Fox News: First Lady Is Baked

[chade]

6. Overheard: Critique of Ann's M&M cookies

"What, did these M&M cookies come from, like, the 7-11 or something?"

[Initech]

7. $10 says Ann Romney doesn't cook for herself.

[Cha]

8. Pics of Michelle eating that prize winning cookie..

http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2012/10/first-lady-michelle-obama-wins-family.html

[malaise]

11. I want one of those

NOW

[freshwest]

13. Oh, man! Great recipes and pictures of Michelle there.

And love the spinach and sweet potato recipes from their collection.

Cooking & Baking, here I come!

[Cha]

14. ObamaFoodOrama is an Awesome site..if

you're into food related issues from the White House..and I am!

[Warpy]

9. Oh, I think she had to be chief cook and bottle washer

before Mitt latched onto Bain as a license to steal. I imagine she fought to get a full time chef but that is probably where her recipe came from.

[Honeycombe8]

10. I like Ginger Snaps, Danish wedding cookies, cookies with white chocolate pieces & almonds. nt

[freshwest]

12. Oops. Wrong link, But of course the Queen didn't cook.