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For the first time in its history, the North Carolina Libertarian Party seems to have polled enough votes to remain on the ballot. With 41% of the North Carolina vote counted, the Libertarian gubernatorial candidate, Mike Munger, has 2.81% of the vote. Either he, or Bob Barr, needs 2% for the party to remain on the ballot for the next four years.
A California Superior Court Judge will hold a hearing in Sacramento in King v Bowen on December 19, at 9 a.m. This is the case concerning the identity of the proper state officers of the American Independent Party. The first hearing, held on August 26, had resulted in leaving Alan Keyes on the ballot as the party’s presidential candidate, instead of Chuck Baldwin. However, that decision had turned on the legal technicality that the Baldwin faction had not served Alan Keyes with notice of the lawsuit.
Partian returns from Guam, as of 6:30 a.m. Pacific time, are: Obama 8,796; McCain 5,355; Barr 97.
Although the Barr vote looks puny, it works out to .68%. In 2004, Libertarian presidential nominee Michael Badnarik polled .20% in Guam. Thanks to IndependentPoliticalReport for these returns.
Although no presidential candidate visisted Guam this year, there was a Democratic presidential primary in Guam this year, and Obama did have a campaign office in Guam, which helped him beat Hillary Clinton in this year’s Guam Democratic presidential primary.
The Guam Election Commission’s web page, http://gec.guam.gov, is not one of those official sites that carries preliminary election data. That site probably won’t have the vote posted for another ten days.
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.