The votes are in, and the “flavorite” candidate of the 2008 Baskin-Robbins presidential ice cream show down is Whirl of Change. The flavor was created to represent Senator Barack Obama. Whirl of Change received 51% of the votes; while the McCain flavor, Straight Talk Crunch, garnered 49%.
For Obama, the dessert scientists at the Baskin-Robbins ice-cream skunk works created a concoction titled “Whirl of Change” which featured peanut-nougat ice cream whirled with chunks of chocolate-covered peanut brittle and a caramel ribbon.
McCain, meanwhile, was represented by “Straight Talk Crunch,” an intriguing melange whose ingredients include caramel ribbon, chocolate pieces, candy red states, and crunchy mixed nuts swirled into white chocolate ice cream.
Nearly 500,000 people voted in its Flavor Debate, Baskin-Robbins said, and the Obama entree won 51 percent of the vote.
No word yet from Republican spin-meisters on whether this poll result is within the margin of error.