The annual U.S. Presidential turkey pardoning ahead of Thanksgiving is a tradition dating back to President Kennedy, but the White House upgraded it for the 21st century this year, launching a poll on Facebook to allow users to pick which of two birds — Gobbler or Cobbler — should be pardoned and named the official National Thanksgiving Turkey for 2012 (neither will be killed and both will henceforth reside at a livestock enclosure George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens).
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