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.

Guam is the only U.S. territorial possession that votes for president in the general election. Since Guam is on the other side of the International Date Line, Guam is voting on Tuesday (from its own perspective), but that is simultaneous with Monday night and very early Tuesday morning, in the remainder of the U.S.

Guam polls are open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Translated to eastern time in the U.S., that range of time runs from 5 p.m. Monday to 5 a.m. Tuesday morning.

Guam has been voting for president in every general election starting with 1980. It has always voted for the person who became president. In 2004 it voted Bush 21,490; Kerry 11,781; Nader 196; Badnarik 67.

Traditionally, U.S. major media completely ignores the Guam vote, even though Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, and Hart’s Location, New Hampshire, which also vote well ahead of the remainder of the United States, always get attention.

Since Guam has no electoral votes, the Guam vote has no effect on the electoral college.

On November 1, a Deseret News/KSL-TV presidential poll was released. It is based on 1,205 voters, sampled between October 24 and October 30. Results: McCain 57%, Obama 32%, Baldwin 2%, Barr 1%, Nader 1%, undecided or refused 7%. Thanks to Frank Fluckiger for this news.

In 2004, the presidential vote in Utah had been: Republican 71.5%, Democratic 26.0%, Nader (independent) 1.2%, Constitution .7%, Libertarian .4%.