Obama came up a winner in the first official results announced early on Tuesday from two small towns in New Hampshire, where a tradition of casting the first votes on election day lives on.
The first ballot box in the 2008 US President election has closed, and it’s looking good for Obama, at least with 15 of 21 votes cast in Dixville Notch.
Dixville Notch is a village with a population of approximately 75 in the Dixville township of Coos County, New Hampshire, but is best known as the first place to declare its results during United States presidential elections.
Obama defeated McCain by a count of 15 to 6 in Dixville Notch, and the town of Hart's Location reported 17 votes for the Democrat, 10 for the Republican and two for write-in Ron Paul. Both towns had favored George W Bush in the last two elections.
The rivals, separated by 25 years and a seemingly unbridgeable political gulf, had agreed on one thing during the longest presidential campaign in US history- their promise to slam the door on the era of George W. Bush.
But they were deeply at odds over how to fix the nation's crumbling economy and end the 5 1/2-year war in Iraq, the issues that sent Bush's job approval plummeting to a record low at the end of his 8-year presidency.
The first ballot box in the 2008 US President election has closed, and it’s looking good for Obama, at least with 15 of 21 votes cast in Dixville Notch.
Dixville Notch is a village with a population of approximately 75 in the Dixville township of Coos County, New Hampshire, but is best known as the first place to declare its results during United States presidential elections.
Obama defeated McCain by a count of 15 to 6 in Dixville Notch, and the town of Hart's Location reported 17 votes for the Democrat, 10 for the Republican and two for write-in Ron Paul. Both towns had favored George W Bush in the last two elections.
The rivals, separated by 25 years and a seemingly unbridgeable political gulf, had agreed on one thing during the longest presidential campaign in US history- their promise to slam the door on the era of George W. Bush.
But they were deeply at odds over how to fix the nation's crumbling economy and end the 5 1/2-year war in Iraq, the issues that sent Bush's job approval plummeting to a record low at the end of his 8-year presidency.
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