Wednesday, November 5, 2008
The First Election Results Are in Already
www.electoral-vote.com: The polls have already closed in Dixville Notch, NH because all 21 eligible voters have cast their ballots. This village of 75 people traditionally opens the polls at midnight on election day and closes them a few minutes later after the last voter has performed his or her civic duty. Barack Obama got 71% of the vote here today. Dixville Notch is not a good bellwether, however; it has voted solidly Republican for decades. The last Democrat to carry the Notch was Hubert Humphrey in 1968. It is probably not a good start for McCain to have early election day news dominated by a story about a solidly Republican rural village voting overwhelmingly for Obama.
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Well I am going to try to stay up tonight to keep up with the results as they come in. We have CNN international and 2 special orbit news channels set up for the election coverage. Great to see your election coverage here on the blog Robert. I just hope that the votes are counted correctly, the Republicans have had 4 more years to fine tune the voting machines.
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