Obama does so too like Dunkin Donuts. With sprinkles of evidence.

An apparently Brazilian blogger notes the following spending in the campaign:
"How much Obama spent until 15/oct?
>> US$ 564 million <
How much McCain spent until 15/oct?
>> US$ 262 milhões <<
Media: US$ 116 millionTravels: US$ 20 millionSalaries and benefits: US$ 20 millionHome Depot: US$ 3.430Domino’s Pizza: US$ 550Starbucks: US$ 1.810Einstein Bros. Bagels: US$ 87Dunkin’ Donuts: US$ 1.010"

http://viniciuswerneck.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/how-much-obamamccain-spent-on-donuts/
Great stuff.

Donuts for McCain. Not that it helped.

Blogger Jed (jedreport.com) followed this donut-related story:
"At the event, the head of AP addressed Barack as "Osama" while John McCain was given a box of Dunkin' Donuts -- with sprinkles. And coffee, with a little cream and a little sugar. By none other than Liz Sidoti. "

more on donuts and politics. Moron. Donuts. Politics.

This is old now, and I don't just mean old fashioned, though it is an old fashioned attack on any liberal who has well-heeled supporters to imply that they don't "get" the struggles of "working people."
On Hillary Clinton and donuts, this UK reporter/columnist Gerard Baker writes,
"Mrs Clinton is the candidate of what might be called Dunkin' Donut Democrats. They do not have money to waste on multiple-hyphenated coffee drinks - double-top, no-foam, non-fat lattes and the like. Not for them the bran muffins or the biscotti. They are the 75-cent coffee and doughnut crowd. For them caffeine choice doesn't correlate with their values but simply represents a means of keeping them going through their challenging day." (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article3330288.ece)

But Obama supporters "are the people for whom Starbucks, with its $5 cups of coffee and fancy bakeries, is not just a consumer choice but a lifestyle. They not only have the money. They share the values."
OK: nothing at Star* is actually $5. and nothing at Dunkin but _one_ donut is .75 (the coffee is well over that).
I don't care any more. But this post is at least about donuts.

a man. a plan. obama. donuts.

One more. It's morning in America.

this i believe. Obama. Donuts.

Another one.

what we can believe in. Obama. Donuts. More.

Now this is what I'm talking about.

What is Donut Freedom Day?

Apparently, many hard working, tax-paying Americans are concerned with the day of the year on which they have earned enough at their jobs to pay off their taxes (that day is called Tax Freedom Day, after which all your income is "yours" and not the government's). (Read about it here among other places: http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxfreedomday ) I don't know why we start on Jan. 1. Did you start working on Jan. 1 without having worked the previous day or week? It's a holiday, so how many new workers start that day? (As a statistic, this just seems a bit random, that's all. And not useful.)




How many donuts do we eat, or, more importantly, how much do we pay for them?

Here's one answer: Donut Stats
This means we spend just $2.18 per capita on donuts. Wow, that is certainly lower than I expected, and shocking, considering that's 3 Krispy Kremes, and I'm just getting started with 3, IF I'm eating donuts.
So for the average American, Donut Freedom Day is January 1. At about 12:30 a.m. Which is usually when one is hitting the ol' Dunkin Donuts.

But that is just for supermarket donuts, not the fresh kind. According to various sources, Americans (who eat less donut per capita than Canadians) consume over 10 billion donuts per year to the tune of 5 billion dollars. So the per capita spending of Americans on donuts is $16.61.
So Donut Freedom Day is still January 1, but at about 3:45 a.m. Rest easy, America: the rest of the year's income is up to you to spend.

(Note: American per capita income for 2007 was $38,611. Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis.)