Obama Wins Landslide Victory

[Dan Rather]

It's over already Baby.

DIXVILLE NOTCH, New Hampshire (CNN) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama emerged victorious in the first election returns of the 2008 presidential race, winning 15 of 21 votes cast in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire.

People in the village in New Hampshire's northeast corner voted just after midnight Tuesday.

It was the first time since 1968 that the village leaned Democratic in an election.

Obama's rival, Republican John McCain, won 6 votes.

A full 100 percent of registered voters in the village cast ballots. And the votes didn't take long to tally. iReport.com: Share your election experience

The town, home to around 75 residents, has opened its polls shortly after midnight each Election Day since 1960, drawing national media attention for being the first place in the country to make its presidential preferences known.

However, since 1996, another small New Hampshire town -- Hart's Location -- reinstated its practice from the 1940s and also began opening its polls at midnight.

The result in Dixville Notch is hardly a reliable bellwether for the eventual winner of the White House -- or even the result statewide.

While New Hampshire is a perennial swing state, with 4 Electoral College votes at stake, Dixville Notch consistently leans Republican. The last Democrat it picked was Hubert Humphrey over Richard Nixon in 1968.

President Bush won the town in a landslide in the past two elections: He captured 73 percent of the vote in 2004 (19 residents picked Bush while six preferred Sen. John Kerry), and secured 80 percent of the vote in 2000 (21 votes for Bush, five votes for Al Gore.) Watch the results being posted in Dixville Notch »

But villagers expected the results to be close this year given Democrats now outnumber Republicans there.

The town picked both John McCain and Barack Obama for the New Hampshire Democratic and Republican primaries in January. McCain ultimately won the state of New Hampshire, while Sen. Hillary Clinton upset Obama there.

[started]

Or it's just started, as in we will finally see who Obama really is: the Rev. Wright-supporting, Ayers-palling, tax increasing, free trade-opposing guy he's been for the last decade, or the Obama who says this is all just a cheap Republican trick to prevent him from changing the world.

Call me a cynic but this whole thing has the whiff of hysteria about it.

[here-we-go]

I hardly think a town of 75 people (not all eligible to vote) is a sign of who is going to win.

I hope that Obama wins and I hope to god he does a great job. However I do think that he will either be the greatest thing or the worst thing to happen to the US. That's just my opinion, albeit from a Brit who cannot vote in your election.

[surely not]

Nobody could get any worst than Dubya.

[Vulcanl]

We will have a good idea by the time we all get into work tomorrow morning-hours to go now!!!!

This is darn exciting!!!

[Dan Rather]

I hardly think a town of 75 people (not all eligible to vote) is a sign of who is going to win.

I hope that Obama wins and I hope to god he does a great job. However I do think that he will either be the greatest thing or the worst thing to happen to the US. That's just my opinion, albeit from a Brit who cannot vote in your election.

Your sarcasm detector needs a tune up - LOL.

Hey but in a town with 21 registered voters, they all turned out.  And it was a landslide - LOL....

I'm gonna vote the way the d!ckheads in dixville voted...

[Obama Baby]

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King jr could walk so Obama could run

Fly Obama fly

America comes of age - great news

When Obama was born blacks were living in apartheid in many states - look at how far they have come

As a child I remember watching Martin Luther King speak on TV and watchng the police dogs set on peaceful marchers - who can forget the canteen pictures where peaceful black students had food poured over their heads for daring to enter a white only place - I remember clearly the day Martin Luther King was shot

As a Brit this is probably the first time in my life I am proud of America

[tosh]

"As a Brit this is probably the first time in my life I am proud of America"

Typical tosh from the increasingly Orwellian nightmare that is modern Britain. If you remember MLK you should be able to remember the trillions of dollars and millions of men that the US put into Europe to face down the expansionary USSR. For some reason, Europeans are convinced that Americans have to defend Europe rather than creating a security zone in the Americas and letting the rest of the whinging West go to the dogs.

And we wouldn't want to be too proud of the America that has contributed the bulk of the scientific and technological knowledge to the world in the last century.

People who talk like this have no notion of history.

[Peabrains]

This sort of Britenis the result of state funded education. Too much education too little intelligence. They are to be found in media, the arts and teaching our kids. Go figure.

[Tosh from Tosh]

Grapes a little sour Tosh  

America did not but all that money into Europe out of altruism and philanthropy - it was protecting its own interests and markets - it is you who needs a lesson in history and realpolitik my friend.

Bulk of technology and scientific knowledge of last century - well there could be a whole debate about that but seeing is you are obviously in pain we will let you have on to your self delusion.

If you want to pull back to the shores of the USA then go ahead and be isolationist but it will be a world of poverty and cultural nothingness - America needs the world just as much as the world needs America (for now)

I will give you that last century was the "American Century" but you got there lateish - Britain had the last 3 before that and Asia will still come out on top of this one no matter how much America tries to pull the world economy down by the greed of Wall Street

So trot off on your little self deluded way typical septic

[Peabrains]

Well obviously they failed you, "Briten" 

Maybe if you were educated you might be out working now instead of making a fool of yourself on here - expat lazy wife are we who could not support herself if her Hubby runbs off with the Asian girl he is probably shagging??

[Gender Reassigned]

Well obviously they failed you, "Briten" 

Maybe if you were educated you might be out working now instead of making a fool of yourself on here - expat lazy wife are we who could not support herself if her Hubby runbs off with the Asian girl he is probably shagging??

That would be Briton with an "o" dickbrain!  It is really low class to disparage Asian women like that too! 

[Asian]

The grapes are particularly sour on here today are they not 

She seems to think she knows a lot about the British system for Asian.

And let's please not get into the Singapore system  - great at passing exams but could not make an independent decision to save their lives

[Brite]

Brite = British shite

[Peabrains]

Typical twaddle from the lefties on this b.o.r.e.d.. So I made a typo, woo hoo! Get over your sad little selves already!