With the election coming up in under a week, people in Kentucky are getting anxious to know who their next president may be.  Anxiety is turning into creativity for some, and pre-polling is underway across the state.

A Louisville bakery has gotten creative, and made Obama and McCain sugar cookies to ease the hunger pains of political junkies.  They’ve made these cookies identical… except for in color.  They’re regular sugar cookies, iced red for McCain, and blue for Obama.  So far, the Obama cookies are in the lead, but employees at the bakery don’t necessarily believe that this means the senator from Illinois will win the election. 

22-year-old Kat Rainey, a part time cashier and baker at the bakery says, “I don’t know if people are buying the blue cookies because of Obama.  You have to remember that this is Cat Country and anything blue sells big.”

Since the numbers may have been skewed because Big Blue Madness is a way of life in Kentucky , the bakery owners scrawled ‘Obama’ in white on the blue cookies, and ‘McCain’ in red on the others. 

So how did this change influence political cookie sales?

“People just bought plain sugar cookies.  I don’t think they realized before that we were trying to go with an unofficial political poll over here,” says Kat.

Here is the unofficial tally:

85 blue cookies were sold within 1 day of being on the shelves.

23 red cookies were sold with in 1 day of being on the shelves.

3 Obama cookies were sold within 1 day.

4 McCain cookies were sold within 1 day.

So why were the cookie sales so different?  Kat contributes it to people wanting to keep politics in the media, rather than in their bellies.