Fun voting fact

Nov 04, 2008 15:50

Have you heard about Dixville Notch, NH?
"This village of 75 people traditionally opens the polls at midnight on election day and closes them a few minutes later after the last voter (21 this year) has performed his or her civic duty. Barack Obama got 71% of the vote here today. Dixville Notch is not a good bellwether, however; it has voted solidly Republican for decades. The last Democrat to carry the Notch was Hubert Humphrey in 1968. It is probably not a good start for McCain to have early election day news dominated by a story about a solidly Republican rural village voting overwhelmingly for Obama." http://electoral-vote.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixville_Notch
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