If ‘c’ is for cookie, ‘d’ is for democracy. An Ohio bakery is trying to correctly predict the outcome of the 2024 election by selling candidate-themed treats.
Busken Bakery in Cincinnati has only predicted the outcome of a presidential election incorrectly once in the past 40 years.
Cookies with the faces of both candidates are sold at various locations in the store. There is also a third option: ‘Cookie Party’ with a smiley. It is kept track of who wins in November, so that it can be counted.
The store’s history so far may be good news for Donald Trump, who has sold 2,953 times as many Kamala Harris cookies as he has, compared to 2,134 times.
It’s always important to keep an eye out for potential third-party candidates who could throw out the outcome, as the “Cookie Party” treat has sold 397 “votes” so far.
Busken Bakery in Cincinnati has been wrong in predicting the outcome of the presidential election only once in the past 40 years
Cookies with the faces of both candidates are sold at the store’s various locations, as well as a third option, “Cookie Party,” featuring a smiley face. Cookie counts are also kept in an attempt to predict who will win in November.
It should be noted that the only time since the 1980s that they were wrong was the last election, when Trump outpolled Joe Biden by a wide margin.
Ohio has become a Republican state, and Cincinnati is close to the Kentucky border, although the city’s mayor and entire city council are elected by Democrats.
The bakery director says it’s all for fun and hopes everyone will vote soon and often.
We like to joke and say [customers] “can fill the ballot box,” Dan Busken told the New York Post.
He says his father, who ran the company, came up with the idea back in the 1980s, along with promotions predicting the Super Bowl.
A local artist is hired to create the somewhat exaggerated designs of the two candidates.
Busken is convinced that you can reach a diverse audience through the company’s four locations, but also through online sales.
“Our results, from our four stores, span the northern, southern, eastern and western parts of Cincinnati. So they’re pretty diverse,” Busken said.
So far, the store’s history could be good news for Donald Trump, who has outsold Kamala Harris cookies 2,953 to 2,134
The polls show Trump in the lead, at least in terms of Busken’s cookie sales
Unfortunately, Busken notes, polarization and party politics are beginning to spoil what should have been an innocent exercise.
“Some people this year — especially more than in previous elections — are more vocal and less friendly about things. But we’re moving forward. We’ve been doing it for 40 years. We like it.”
However, he adds that the advantage of this is that sales have increased significantly since the last election.
“We sold a lot more in the first two weeks than we did in the previous election. So I would say that the turnout of cookie voters has increased.”
Earlier today, Trump got some positive news from the slightly less friendly, but more professional pollsters.
Trump leads Harris in three crucial states where both candidates are campaigning intensively as the race for the White House enters the final stretch.
A New York Times/Siena College poll shows the former president strong in the Sun Belt, where he holds a significant lead over the vice president in Arizona. He also scores better among likely voters in Georgia and North Carolina.
Respondents said Trump improved their lives when he was president and they fear a Harris administration would not do so.
Donald Trump campaigns in Wilmington, NC on Saturday, September 21, as the NYT/Siena poll shows him in a neck-and-neck race there. He returns to the state on Wednesday
In Arizona, a state where Trump lost to President Biden by just over 10,000 votes in 2020, Trump is ahead by 5 percentage points (50 percent) compared to 45 percent for Harris, according to the poll.
In Georgia, another state where the Republican presidential candidate lost by fewer than 12,000 votes in 2020, Trump holds a 49 percent lead, compared to Harris’s 45 percent.
In North Carolina, where Trump won by just 75,000 votes in 2020, the race is particularly close, with the former president polling at 49 percent of the vote, compared to 47 percent for Harris.
The polls show how close the presidential election really is. It will likely be decided by just seven states, where a few thousand votes could make a huge difference in who determines the course of the country for the next four years.