Nov 04 2008
Obama Wins in Early Voting Dixville Notch
Dixville Notch has the distinction of recording the first voting returns in the country:
Voting polls weren’t even open when Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location announced their results. For 60 years, the two small villages in New Hampshire have been observing a tradition of having the first Election Day ballots.
The Dixville Notch results are in:
Dixville Notch, NH (AHN) – The town of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, with a population of around 75 people and only 21 registered voters, has picked Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) to be the next president of the United States. Obama defeated Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) by a margin of 15 votes to 6.
Looks like good news for Obama but, does this spell doom for McCain?
In a word: No. There’s no historical relationship between the performances of the two major-party candidates In Dixville Notch and their performances in the rest of New Hampshire — never mind the rest of the country
Looks like we are going to have to turn to the networks tonight and see what the rest of the country has to say about the candidates.
