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Dixville Notch Results: Obama 15, McCain 6

by: robert.harding

Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 00:11:47 AM EST

The very small town of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire has headed to the polls and the very first results of the 2008 elections are in:

Barack Obama: 15 votes

John McCain: 6 votes

Even Dixville Notch, a town that usually votes for Republicans, has Obama fever.

UPDATE: There are three things I wanted to mention in relation to these results from Dixville Notch.

(1) Obama and McCain won their respective primaries in Dixville Notch's voting. Not that Dixville Notch's voting had anything to do with it (Obama ended up losing New Hampshire) but it is interesting that the presidential election ended up being those two.

(2) Democrats haven't fared well in Dixville Notch voting, especially in recent history. In 1992, Bill Clinton came in fourth behind George H.W. Bush, Ross Perot and Libertarian candidate Andre Marrou. In 2000, George W. Bush blew out Al Gore by 16 votes, winning 21-5.

(3) Prior to Obama, the only other Democrat to win Dixville Notch? Hubert Humphrey in 1968.

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Dixville Notch Results: Obama 15, McCain 6 | 2 comments

ouch. (4.00 / 1)

and the redskins got stomped. looks like old man crashy just might be fucked.

TODAY is day one. It always is.

by: phillip anderson @ Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 05:16:10 AM UTC

Different interpretation (0.00 / 0)

My take on this is not that Obama is about to get massive numbers of Republican votes nationwide-- although I do think McCain will lose many of the faithful this round.

Rather, I look at this as evidence of demography in flux-- and I see the same reflected in rural NY, too. The old Republican bedrock is dying off at quite a clip.... and, the young people who live in these places are more the product of a geographic sorting that puts more liberal people in the Northeast, the red-red types in the welfare-farming states of the Midwest, and the Mountain West/Southwest strongholds of Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Datkotas, Idaho. They may still be registered Republican or blank, but they are further left than before.

This change in demography means NYS is about to go even more blue than places like RealClear Politics are predicting, because their models over-emphasize the influence of all the dead people who voted for guys like Amo Houghton many many years ago.

by: robinia @ Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 13:29:52 PM UTC