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4 hours ago DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. (AP) Barack Obama came up a big winner in the presidential race in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location, N.H., where tradition of having the first Election Day ballots tallied lives on. Democrat Obama defeated Republican John McCain by a count of 15 to 6 in ...
news.yahoo.com - 11/4/2008
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AP - Democrat Barack Obama came up a
big winner in the presidential race in Dixville Notch,...
N.H., where the nation's first Election Day votes were cast and counted early Tuesday.
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Obama wins in earliest vote
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Obama’s First Win: Dixville Notch, NH
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
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With 115 residents between them, Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location get every eligible voter to the polls beginning at midnight on Election Day. Between them, the towns have been enjoying their first-vote status since 1948.
Being first means something to residents of the Granite State, home of the nation’s earliest presidential primary and the central focus — however briefly — of the vote-watching nation’s attention every four years.
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Obama takes the lead in NH
BlondeSense —
... . Well stop the presses! Obama won Dixville Notch in a landslide victory of 15 to 6 ! In Hart's Location, another small NH town, Obama won a landslide victory of 17-10 with 2 write in votes for Ron Paul.
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First Results: Obama Takes Dixville Notch Away From The GOP
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/4/2008 — The first results are in for the 2008 general election, with the small village of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire again performing its tradition of having everyone turn out to vote at midnight and then immediately reporting the results.
And the ...
Is Dixville Notch Predictive?
fivethirtyeight.com 11/4/2008 — 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: Still, you'd rather be up 15-6 ...
Dixville Notch weighs in
washingtonmonthly.com 11/4/2008 — DIXVILLE NOTCH WEIGHS IN.... In terms of predictive value, these early results don't mean much of anything. But in terms of political trivia, it's a fun little indulgence. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama emerged victorious in the first ...
Critblogging the Vote 2008
julescrittenden.com 11/4/2008 — News Flash: Dixville Notch votes Democratic for the first time since 1968 ... What? Dixville Notch went Democratic in 1968? Hey, who won that year, anyway?
In other early bellwether election news, my kids' elementary school gives it to McCain, 55-45 ...
Obama Wins Dixville Notch —
Outside The Beltway | OTB
One of the bizarre rituals in American presidential politics is that the hamlet of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire votes at midnight and announces its results before most of us wake up. For the first time in four decades, they voted Democrat.
Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, is the first in the ...
Obama Wins Dixville Notch —
Oliver Willis
15 - Obama
6 - McCain
First Democratic win in Dixville Notch since 1960. They went 19-7 for Bush in 2004.
As President Bartlett would say: What’s next?
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