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The First Election Results Are in Already The polls have already closed in Dixville Notch, NH [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixville_Notch%5d because all 21 eligible voters have cast their ballots. 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 has performed his or her civic duty. Barack Obama got 71% [http://us.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/0.../index.html%5d 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.
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