Nice trend. Let's keep it rolling. Made my own mark on the shape of the Cosmos an hour ago.
---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : [scifinoir2] Re: First Election in the Country Goes to...Obama! Date : Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:34:09 +0000 From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com And here's the big story from the AP: Obama wins in earliest vote 12 minutes ago DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. (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. Obama defeated John McCain 15-6. Independent Ralph Nader was also on the ballot, but received no votes. The first voter, following tradition established in 1948, was picked ahead of the midnight voting and the rest of the town's 19 registered voters followed suit in Tuesday's first minutes. Town Clerk Rick Erwin says the northern New Hampshire town is proud of its tradition, but says the most important thing is that the turnout represents 100 percent vote. President Bush won the vote in Dixville Notch in 2004 on the way to his re-election. -------------- Original message -------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith Johnson) Interesting, a whopping 15 votes for Obama. Does this portend the shape of things to come...? The results are so new I don't see them on the Net anywhere yet, but here's a blurb on the area from CNN a couple of hours ago. Like the fifth season opener of "Babylon 5" stated, "And so it begins..." ******************************** >From Alexander Mooney CNN (CNN) -- The first wave of election returns won't flow in until 7 p.m. ET Tuesday night, but the results in one precinct will be known much sooner. Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, is the first in the nation to vote in the primaries and Election Day. Dixville Notch, a village in New Hampshire's northeast corner, will begin voting at the stroke of 12 a.m. ET Tuesday, and the ballots won't take long to tally: Dixville Notch only has about 20 registered voters. The town, home to around 75 residents, has opened its polls shortly after midnight each Election Day since 1960, drawing national media attention for being the first place in the country to make its presidential preferences known. But since 1996, another small New Hampshire town, Hart's Location, reinstated its practice from the 1940s and also opens its polls at midnight. The result in Dixville Notch is, however, hardly a reliable bellwether for the eventual winner of the White House or even the result statewide. While New Hampshire is a perennial swing state -- with 4 Electoral College votes at stake -- Dixville Notch consistently leans Republican. The last Democrat it picked was Hubert Humphrey over Richard Nixon in 1968. Don't Miss ElectionCenter 2008: Electoral Map Calculator ElectionCenter 2008: Latest polls ElectionCenter 2008 iReport.com: Going to the polls? Share your experience President Bush also won the town in a landslide in the past two elections: He captured 73 percent of the vote in 2004 (19 residents picked Bush while six preferred Sen. John Kerry), and secured 80 percent of the vote in 2000 (21 votes for Bush, 5 votes for Al Gore.) But the result could be close this year given Democrats now outnumber Republicans there. According to Donna Kaye Erwin, the supervisor of the voter checklist, Dixville Notch has five registered Democrats, four Republicans and 11 undeclared voters. The result could also be a nail biter given the town picked both Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama for the New Hampshire Democratic and Republican primaries last January. McCain ultimately won the state of New Hampshire, while Sen. Hillary Clinton upset Obama there
