http://www.familycircle.com/marketing/04_cookie_cookoff/
Gotta give this one to Mrs. Bush. Pumpkin spice cookies sound good, but NOTHING trumps chocolate chips/chunks. NOTHING!!! It’s the nuclear bomb of cookies.
I do love chocolate chips & oatmeal.
But Mrs. Kerry’s cookies have 0.8 tsps of butter per cookie vs. Mrs. Bush’s 0.75 tsps of butter per cookie. I gotta go with the more-butter-per-cookie. 
I think Mr. Bush is going to have some serious explaining to do to the dairy industry after this debacle!
Does anyone believe that either of these women bakes?
It seems clear that someone is going to have to bake them.
According to Family Circus, the cookie contest accurately coincided with the last three presidential races.
I’m sure you mean Family Circle, the magazine.
But the idea of Family Circus being a cite almost made me snort orange juice out my nose.
Oy.
Assuming that the chocolate chip cookies win, that contradicts the other scientific “the taller guy usually wins” theory. Billy and Jeffy and even Dolly are just full of shit!
When I read the title, I thought you were referring to Laura Bush’s Cowboy Cookies . In that event, Mrs. Kerry wins by default.
Ms. Kerry’s cookies are disturbingly reminiscent of dog feces. Ugh.
Gotta admit, that site whooshed me at first. I’m thinking “Cookies with chewing tobacco? Ugh!” Then I saw the “2 T spittle (no phlegm)” ingredient and noticed the URL…
I like chocolate chip cookies – I like oatmeal cookies – but they are two separate creatures. Putting chocolate chips in oatmeal cookies is an abomination unto the Lord (kind of like putting chocolate chips into banana bread or something shudder).
Thus I was completely comfortable voting for the cookie, and not for the husband of the woman presenting the recipe as something she had actually gotten into the kitchen with, in this highly scientific poll.
Count me on the side of the oatmeal cookies.
Sorry, Bush family. You have my vote, and you have my money. Heck, you have my large arsenal and dubious morality at your beck and call. But chocolate in cookies? Frelling disgusting. Pumpkin spice sounds more up my alley, even if I have serious doubts Mrs.Heinz-Kerry can turn on an oven, much less do something worthwhile with one.
My mom made the Neiman-Marcus chocolate chip cookie recipe (or some variation) when we believed it to be true, and it called for ground oatmeal powder (which a blender can grind very easily). I think it added a very nice chewy texture to the cookie.
Gotta go with Laura’s as they’ll benefit a greater percentage of the populus, employ multiracial sugars and are less demanding in their energy requirements.
I’m sorry folks, but unless it has been horribly mangled somehow, chocolate, chocolate chips, and/or chocolate chunks win EVERY TIME. Those of you who don’t agree are obviously communists! 
This is all well and good, but I want to know which one has the nicest biscuit.
So has Nickelodeon’s “Kids Pick the President” poll, for that matter.
You and I are no longer friends, twicks. Chocolate is the Universal Condiment, guaranteed to lift spirits and add a certain je ne sais quoi to almost anything you marry it up with. Salads, main courses – hell, anything but dessert, really, are resistant to chocolate’s charms, sadly.
Fortunately, “desserts” includes oatmeal cookies and banana bread.
Robin