Obama Sweeps Early NH Towns, Ron Paul Gets Write-Ins

Obama won big in the two New Hampshire towns that tally their votes in the early hours of the morning on Election Day.

Obama carried the town of Hart’s Location by a vote of 17 to 10 for McCain. Ron Paul received 2 write-in votes.

In Dixville Notch, Obama beat McCain by a count of 15 to 6.

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.

Hart’s Location started opening its polls early in 1948, the year Harry S. Truman beat Thomas Dewey, to accommodate railroad workers who had to get to work early. Hart’s Location got out of the early voting business in 1964 after some residents grew weary of all the publicity, but brought it back in 1996.

Dixville Notch, nestled in a mountain pass 1,800 feet up and about halfway between the White Mountain National Forest and the Canadian border, followed suit in 1960, when John F. Kennedy beat Richard M. Nixon. Nixon, the Republican, swept all nine votes cast in Dixville that year, and before Tuesday, the town had gone for a Democrat only once since then. That was in 1968, when the tally was Democrat Hubert Humphrey eight, Nixon four.


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Obama Sweeps Early NH Towns, Ron Paul Gets Write-Ins — 7 Comments

  1. What are these idiots THINKING?

    From Obama’s Berlin Speech: “We cannot to continue to rely only on our military
    in order to achieve the national security objectives that we have set. We have
    got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as
    strong, just as well funded.” He added, “People of all ages, stations, and
    skills will be asked to serve.”

    In my opinion, Obama’s “civilian national security force” will be used to
    enforce speech codes, the “FAIRNESS DOCTRINE” and DRACONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS,
    right here on our own soil in violation of POSSE COMITATAS.

    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=69601

    This man Obama is a truly scary demagogue who deserves to be questioned much
    more than he was. It is sad that our press is corrupt in this country and no
    longer can be trusted to do this job satisfactorily. It doesn’t mean you should
    not investigate these things for yourself. It does not mean Obama did not say
    this. It’s recorded on video everywhere for posterity.

    But the fact his apologists would twist it to mean something it does not in
    order to whitewash it is QUITE FRIGHTENING.

  2. Obama will win by a lanslide

    every country every people deserve the leaders they have

    the end is near. It looks like the Mayans were right about December 21,2012.

  3. So this is presumably the Chicken Little thread?

    Nice link entdinglichung. Have God Help Us and Jonathan something they’d like to share with us having read the last paragraph? It’d sure enliven the evening!

  4. Are there any good news sites that are actually tracking the votes for all of the candidates? CNN.com is pretending there are only two, and leaving everyone else out. USAToday.com shows a combined third party line called “Others”. CBSNews.com has a few third party candidates listed in their national summary, but not state-by-state.

    The first time I looked at the CBSNews.com results, they showed 40,000+ votes and 4% of the total going to Ted Stevens of the Objectivist Party. I don’t know if it was a hack or a joke or what, but it quickly disappeared.

  5. USAToday.com is showing the third-party results by state, if you select the individual state results and scroll down. I will be boycotting CNN.com and using USAToday.com this time around.

    CBSNews.com has a handy popular vote summary on their main presidential results page, but don’t bother going to the individual state results.

  6. Lex, the USA Today thing is okay, but they only list the top four in each state. That’s better than some, but I’d like to see the top six.

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