Did you guy see that small precinct in New Hampshire that votes at midnight, it has 21 voters and has traditionally gone republican. Last night Obama 15 McCain 6 We are OFF !! Link to article Obama wins in earliest vote in tiny N.H. towns. Dixville Notch, Hart's Location 1st officially to announce Election Day results Election officials Nancy Ritger, left, Carolyn King, center, and Karen Faxon, right, tally up votes in Hart's Location, N.H., early Tuesday morning. DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. - 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 Dixville Notch, where a loud whoop accompanied the announcement in Tuesday's first minutes. The town of Hart's Location reported 17 votes for Obama, 10 for McCain and two for write-in Ron Paul. Independent Ralph Nader was on both towns' ballots but got no votes. "I'm not going to say I wasn't surprised," said Obama supporter Tanner Nelson Tillotson, whose name was drawn from a bowl to make him Dixville Notch's first voter. 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. 'A 100 percent vote' 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. Town Clerk Rick Erwin said Dixville Notch is proud of its tradition, but added, "The most important thing is that we exemplify a 100 percent vote." Dixville Notch resident Peter Johnson said the early bird electoral exercise "is fun." A former naval aviator, Johnson said he was voting for McCain, but added, "I think both candidates are excellent people." Voting was carried out in a room in a local hotel festooned with political memorabilia from campaigns long past. Each voter gets an individual booth so there are no lines at the magic hour. The votes were quickly counted, announced and recorded on a posterboard that proclaims, "First in the Nation, Dixville Notch." The tradition drew spectators, including Tim McKenna, who drove with his wife 16 miles from Cambridge, N.H., to witness the event. "Living in New Hampshire, you hear so much about it in the news," said McKenna. "I think it's a very historic election this year." Ed Butler, a Democratic state representative who runs the Notchland Inn in Hart's Location, said, "Being this small and being able to be first just makes it that much more special." First announcements Although scores of states have voted early, the two villages are the first to officially announce the results on Election Day. New Hampshire law requires polls to open at 11 a.m., but that doesn't stop towns from opening earlier. It also allows towns to close their polls once all registered and eligible voters have cast ballots. 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. DD
Dixville Notch, New Hampshire has spoken first. Obama in a landslide. 15-6 http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/dixville.notch/index.html DIXVILLE NOTCH, New Hampshire (CNN) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama emerged victorious in the first election returns of the 2008 presidential race, winning 15 of 21 votes cast in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire. People in the village in New Hampshire's northeast corner voted just after midnight Tuesday. It was the first time since 1968 that the village leaned Democratic in an election. Obama's rival, Republican John McCain, won 6 votes. A full 100 percent of registered voters in the village cast ballots. And the votes didn't take long to tally. iReport.com: Share your election experience 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. However, since 1996, another small New Hampshire town -- Hart's Location -- reinstated its practice from the 1940s and also began opening its polls at midnight. The result in Dixville Notch is 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. President Bush 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, five votes for Al Gore.) But villagers expected the results to be close this year given Democrats now outnumber Republicans there. The town picked both John McCain and Barack Obama for the New Hampshire Democratic and Republican primaries in January. McCain ultimately won the state of New Hampshire, while Sen. Hillary Clinton upset Obama there.
Also, the Steelers won last night and in 17 of the last 18 games Washington has played before the election if Washington wins the incumbent party stays in power, if they lose then we'll have a change in power.
When can we expect to see some actual vote number come in? All I have seen are the 21 from the New Hampshire town.
I would expect around 6pm tonight...after polls close, it would not be proper to put them up before then. DD
Indiana is on Eastern time. If you are one hour behind us, I guess you will see our results at 5:30pm.
I actually already know who's going to win. My softball team has been together since 1980. Stats have been kept. Since 1980, when the Rock Lobsters have a losing record in the Fall season of an election year, the democrat has won. This just completed fall season (our 102nd overall), we finished with a miserable 2-4 record.
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Rove predicts Obama landslide Posted: 10:37 AM ET http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/04/rove-predicts-obama-landslide/ From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney Karl Rove's Electoral prediction (CNN) – John McCain and his aides are still banking on a come-from-behind victory Tuesday, but the GOP's most famous political strategist has already called the race for Barack Obama. Karl Rove, the man widely credited with engineering President Bush's two successful White House bids, is predicting the Illinois senator will take the White House in an Electoral College landslide, winning 338 votes to John McCain's 200. That would be the largest Electoral College victory since 1996, when Bill Clinton defeated Bob Dole in a 379-159 rout. Watch: Kenyans pulling for Obama In an Electoral Map posted on Rove's Web site, the Republican mastermind predicts Obama victories in several key battlegrounds, including virtually all of the states where polls suggest he currently enjoys a slim advantage. In fact, Rove believes Missouri is the only crucial battleground state McCain will carry, while Obama scores victories in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota, and Iowa. Rove also thinks Obama will win traditionally-Republican Virginia.
I have played with several over the years......the Rat Bastards were the last team I was on a year ago. And before that I played from tons of teams from the lowest level to the highest level. On one team we were playing at the highest level and we went 2 years without losing but the guys started becomming arseholish to the other team's so I left.....I was the pitcher and 2nd baseman. I only play for fun, and had been on teams that got drummed and hated others to rub it in...that was poor sportsmanship. The irony of this story, is that I left the team, went to another team in the same division that had guys playing for fun and we ended their streak....we won on a 3 run homer in the last inning and beat them 14-12.....they were pissed......but I enjoyed every second of it with a smile. DD
