Cookie poll

presidential election based on cookie sales.^[1]

candidate's name or image, or the color of the candidate's party. Customers purchase the cookie for the candidate they support and tallies are used to forecast a winner.^[2][3] In the name of fairness and accuracy, cookie polls are only considered legitimate if cookies representing both candidates are sold; bakeries will stop the polling once a supply of any one candidate's cookies are depleted beyond a certain point.^[4]

unscientific and not controlled for any factor beyond consumer habits,^[5] but many bakeries across the U.S. claim success at predicting elections for the last several voting cycles,^[6][7][8] including one bakery in Ohio that accurately foresaw the last nine elections.^[9] Other bakeries use it as a platform to encourage voter participation.^[6]