Top 15 Cakes for the Morning After... the US Presidential Election, That Is.

This strikes me as a good time for cake. If you supported Barack Obama, you can celebrate with cake. If McCain, Barr, Nader, or another candidate was your favorite, call it comfort food and pig out to your heart's content. To that end, I've collected cakes from around the internet for candidates and supporters on all sides.

1. Barack's Cake

Megpi baked this cake based on her Obama "Progress" poster. If you're holding a victory party, a similar design could really be a hit. If you supported McCain, I suppose eating it might give you some sort of bizarre, canibalistic closure?

2. Bristol's Cake

Now that the election is over, the Palin family can return to planning for the upcoming blessed event.

3. Joe the Senator's Cake

I wanted to congratulate Senator Joe Biden on winning the vice-presidency, but I gaffed.

4. John's Already Got Cake

John McCain has had some practice at selecting a cake for consumption directly after a great loss.

5. Cindy's Cake

Do you think avid drift racing driver Cindy McCain could eat this entire cake?

6. Michelle's Cake

If Michelle feels she needs to remind Barack about his promise to quit smoking, this tasty ashtray might do the trick.

7. Chuck Norris's Cake

Chuck's probably feeling pretty down right now, what with being replaced by Michael Phelps jokes and the failure of all his political predictions to come to fruition. Maybe this action-packed cake will cheer him up.

8. Techie Politicos' Cake

Obama enjoyed significant support from the techie/geek/nerd demographic, whose members can now celebrate with this lovely cake.

9. Alternate Techie Cake

Of course, some have speculated that Obama is a Mac and McCain is a PC, so perhaps this cake is more appropriate.

10. Piper's Cake

This fashionable dessert, sculpted by the totally fabulous Sweets by Lulu bakery, would be a perfect consolation cake for poor Piper, who won't be getting any more $790 handbags from the McCain campaign's budget.

11. OK, Fine, John Gets Another Cake

Since John McCain's supporters and opponents agree that McCain is a pirate (though in different senses of the word), here's a jolly roger cake for him.

12. Putin's Cake

He was discussed in the US presidential debates, so I think Putin deserves a day-after-election-day cake, too. However, in Soviet Russia, cake bites you. Therefore, he gets this frightening spider cake.

13. Entire US House and Senate's Cake

The House and Senate passed an economic rescue package that's been accused of including billions of dollars in pork. They'd better have made bacon, and a bacon cake, with at least some of that!

14. Rove's Cake

John McCain may have lost despite Karl Rove's help, and the Bush administration may be on its way out, but, mark my words, we haven't seen the last of Rove. Therefore, I thought he might like something to set on his lap and stroke until the next election.

15. No Cake for Sarah

Why didn't I pick out a cake for Sarah Palin? Well, she's already hopped on a snowmobile after learning that, while she was busy on the campaign trail, an Alaskan moose managed to escape her long enough to celebrate a birthday!

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