For Family Circle magazine, it's a way to get some quick and easy publicity.
For U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole, it's a reminder of a political defeat.
Family Circle sent out a release today saying that Cindy McCain's Oatmeal-Butterscotch Cookies won their quadrennial Cookie Bake-Off among the spouses of presidential candidates. McCain's cookies beat Michelle Obama's Shortbread Cookies in a vote by the magazine's readers.
The magazine goes on to say that the winner of their contest has always ended up in the White House.
And one of their examples was from 1996, when Hillary Clinton's Oatmeal Chocolate Chips beat Dole's Pecan Rolls.
(Note: There have been allegations of fraud in the Cookie Bake-Off, with some suggesting that McCain's recipe was not her own.)
