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Tiger Beer
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 Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject: Dixville-Notch, New Hampshire JUST voted |
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Dixville-Notch, New Hampshire voted at midnight. 17 ballots were cast.
Obama 7, Edwards 2, Richardson 1, Clinton 0.
McCain 4, Romney 2, Guiliani 1.
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The ballots in Dixville Notch and nearby Harts Location represent the first direct voting in New Hampshire's primary, the next battleground in the state-by-state process of choosing Republican and Democratic candidates for November's election to replace President George W. Bush.
Though its population is tiny at 74 residents, Dixville Notch is home to the 15,000-acre (6,070-hectare) Balsams Grand Resort Hotel near the Canadian border.
In 1960, to spark publicity and serve a civic function, the resort's late owner, Neil Tillotson, opened voting booths at midnight on primary day and reported the results of the staff's ballots to the local wire service. |
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| To speed things up, in an attempt to assure Dixville Notch would be first to finish voting, each of the 13 voters present had a voting booth. Four others voted by absentee ballot. The balloting was over within minutes as 12 Independents, 3 Republicans and 2 Democrats voted |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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Clinton zero..owch!
Maybe she'll get emotional again and start crying.
It's so believeable...NOT! |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:22 am Post subject: |
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Another interesting thing. 12 independents.
4 voted Republican and 8 voted Democrat. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:40 am Post subject: |
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Good call, TB.
As Dixville Notch goes, so goes the Union. (I hope, I hope, I hope.) |
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Ya-ta Boy
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Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:47 am Post subject: |
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| I hate being in situations where I wish my life away, but this whole year is one of them. We have to wait until Jan. 21 NEXT year for Bush to leave office. I want it to be January 21, 2009 NOW. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:31 am Post subject: |
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Actually, two towns voted early. You should post the total votes, and not just half the story:
Democrats:
Obama 16
Edwards 3
Clinton 3
Richardson 1
Republicans:
McCain 10
Huckabee 5
Paul 4
Romney 3
Giulinani 1
DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. - Residents of two tiny towns stayed up late to give Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain early victories in the New Hampshire presidential primary.
In Hart's Location, Obama received 9 votes, Hillary Rodham Clinton 3 and John Edwards 1. On the Republican side, McCain received 6 votes, Mike Huckabee 5, Ron Paul 4 and Mitt Romney 1.
In Dixville Notch, Obama got 7 votes, Edwards 2 and Bill Richardson 1. Among Republicans, McCain got 4 votes, Romney 2 and Rudy Giuliani 1.
Although this year's results were in line with the latest pre-election polls, neither town is known for foreshadowing the winners statewide on any consistent basis. For example, Wesley Clark, the retired Army general, won 14 of the 31 votes cast in the last Democratic primary in 2004 |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:55 am Post subject: |
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Nice.
The story I posted was pretty much immediately after midnight. The other town hadn't officially tallied the votes yet.
Interesting to see a Ron Paul and Huckabee showing however in the other town. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:00 am Post subject: |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
| Interesting to see a Ron Paul and Huckabee showing however in the other town. |
Especially interesting that Dr. Paul was DENIED participation in that "FOX" debate just the other day.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=109674&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
NO ROOM, NO ROOM !!!
Clearly would have managed to pick up even more suppport, whether undecided or what have you.
Woe AmeriKa. |
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Tiger Beer
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:07 am Post subject: |
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| igotthisguitar wrote: |
| Tiger Beer wrote: |
| Interesting to see a Ron Paul and Huckabee showing however in the other town. |
Especially interesting that Dr. Paul was DENIED participation in that "FOX" debate just the other day.. |
Didn't he end up doing Leno instead because of it? |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:11 am Post subject: |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
| Didn't he end up doing Leno instead because of it? |
There was talk of that, yes.
Did he actually do it? Got a "YOU TUBE" link?
Either way, he apparently hosted his own "public" forum elsewhere. |
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Tiger Beer
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:18 am Post subject: |
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Republicans:
McCain 10
Huckabee 5
Paul 4
Romney 3
Giulinani 1 |
I'm glad to see Romney's numbers low. He seems just about as slimey as Guiliani, almost.
He certainly loves high intensity negative campain ads against his opponents more than anyone I've yet seen run. He spends nearly all of his time distorting others records than running on his own.
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
| Didn't he end up doing Leno instead because of it? |
There was talk of that, yes.
Did he actually do it? Got a "YOU TUBE" link? |
I was looking for it too, and couldn't find it. But several sourced mentioned that is what he would do, maybe it didn't actually happen. |
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ontheway
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Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:45 am Post subject: ... |
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| If there were any semblance of poetic justice in the world, there'd be a lot more places called Dixville. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:03 pm Post subject: Re: ... |
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| Nowhere Man wrote: |
| If there were any semblance of poetic justice in the world, there'd be a lot more places called Dixville. |
Dixville-Notch!
Where America goes to probe its leaders' qualifications. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| I hate being in situations where I wish my life away, but this whole year is one of them. We have to wait until Jan. 21 NEXT year for Bush to leave office. I want it to be January 21, 2009 NOW. |
And I want it to be January 20, 2001...but we can't always get what we want. |
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