Obama wins first votes of Election Day RAW STORY

Published: Tuesday November 4, 2008





Print This Email This NH town picks first Dem in 40 years Every four years, voters in the small town of Dixville Notch, N.H., gather at midnight to cast their presidential ballot. Democratic candidate Barack Obama defeated John McCain 15-6 among the town's voters, the Associated Press reports.



Obama is the first Democrat to win the small town's vote in four decades.



The town has been the first to vote in every presidential election since 1948, and every one of its voters cast a ballot. President Bush won a majority of the town's vote in 2004 and 2000.



The town's tradition of midnight voting was the subject of a 2002 episode of The West Wing.



Dixville Notch has not backed a Democratic candidate since 1968, when its residents chose Hubert Humphrey over Richard Nixon.





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