skippy the bush kangaroo

Monday, November 03, 2008

another notch in obama's belt

dixville notch, the first town in america to traditionally count its votes, reports a landslide for obama. cnn:

democratic presidential candidate barack obama emerged victorious in the first election returns of the 2008 presidential race, winning 15 of 21 votes cast in dixville notch, new hampshire.

people in the isolated village in new hampshire's northeast corner voted just after midnight tuesday.

it was the first time since 1968 that the village leaned democratic in an election.

obama's rival, republican john mccain, won 6 votes.

a full 100 percent of registered voters in the village cast ballots. and the votes didn't take long to tally.

the town, home to around 75 residents, has opened its polls shortly after midnight each election day since 1960, drawing national media attention for being the first place in the country to make its presidential preferences known.
this proves polticians should pay attention to new hampshire, and not take that state for granite.

addendum: the nytimes tells us that the nearby town of hart's location also reports the majority of votes for obama, but ron paul squeaked out 2 write-in votes.
posted by skippy at 10:21 PM |

2 Comments:

hart's location, too.

i predict obama wins at least 375 ev.
commented by OpenID Mahakal / מהכאל, 11:12 PM PST  
oh well, he'd have 375 if he won missouri, but looks like he's down (by less than 5,000 votes) there at the moment and probably won't get those 11 ev. 364 will still be nice.
commented by OpenID Mahakal / מהכאל, 12:30 AM PST  

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