All Eyes Turn to Coos County
EmailThe results are in, and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., won.
But not so fast — we’re just talking about the tiny resort town of Dixville Notch, N.H., whose residents get to vote as of midnight each Election Day.
Obama beat Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., among the 21 voters in this town — 15-6.
Other towns in the Granite State vote and release the results early as well, but they don’t get the same publicity.
Obama won in Hart’s Location, N.H., 17-10.
How predictive are the citizens of the Notch?
In 2008, they picked both Obama in the Democratic primary (Obama – 7; former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C. – 2; Gov. Bill Richardson – 1) and McCain in the GOP primary (McCain – 4; former Gov. Mitt Romney – 2; former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani – 1).
In 2004, they voted for President George W. Bush over Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., 19-7. Their Democratic primary pick, Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.), not so much.
In 2000, they went for Bush over then-Vice President Al Gore, 21-5. They went for former Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., and Bush in the primaries.
In 1996, they went for former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., over then-President Bill Clinton, 18-8.
In 1992, they went for then-President George H.W. Bush over then-Gov. Bill Clinton, 15-2.
In 1988, they went for then-Vice President George H.W. Bush over then-Gov. Mike Dukakis, 34-3.
1984 – Reagan over Mondale, 29-1.
1980 – Reagan over Carter, 17-3.
1976 – Ford over Carter, 13-11.
So as a general rule, these voters have a decent record in predicting who will win. But more to the point, they often go GOP in general elections, which is interesting, considering their support for Obama today. Though, of course, it might be completely irrelevant as well.
- jpt
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Can Mitt Romney Win Conservatives Back?
Roll Call poll has Kanjorski down 6 only hours before Election Day
The latest poll comes from SurveyUSA on behalf of Roll Call and finds Kanjorski trailing Republican Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta by 6 points, 51 percent to 45 percent.
GO Lou GO McCain
Posted by: Steave Cuozzo | November 4, 2008, 7:52 am 7:52 am
Pennsylvanian’s for America!
Pennsyvania cant afford coal related job loses and high cost of electricity when alternative energy sources dont exist . vote no on Obama
Posted by: Steave Cuozzo | November 4, 2008, 7:58 am 7:58 am
Fox Poll: McCain Tied in Key States
A just-released Fox News poll of 1,000 voters in each of six key states shows Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain making major last minutes strides to pull even with his Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama.
While Obama leads in two of the battlegrounds states, the candidates are now tied, or within 1 point of each other, in four others, according to the Rasmussen Reports survey.
In Ohio, one of the states that McCain’s supporters believe they have to win, McCain has pulled dead even. Obama and McCain are now tied in Ohio, at 49 percent apiece.
Here are the results from the Fox News poll:
Colorado
Obama 51
McCain 47
Florida
McCain 50
Obama 49
Missouri
Obama 49
McCain 49
N. Carolina
McCain 50
Obama 49
Ohio
Obama 49
McCain 49
Virginia
Obama 51
McCain 47
The poll has a plus or minus margin of error of 3 percent.
Posted by: Steave Cuozzo | November 4, 2008, 8:24 am 8:24 am
I live in Pa….
PA goes for Obama
Republicans find the dust bin of history in ’08..
complete repudiation and disgrace from the American electorate..
Lies and smears are over
America comes home…. at last
Posted by: Blue | November 4, 2008, 8:26 am 8:26 am
This country should listen closely to Hillary Rodem Clinton, “In the White House there is no time for speeches and on-the-job training. Senator McCain will bring a lifetime of experience to the campaign and Senator Obama will bring a speech that he gave in 2002. I think that is a significant difference.”
Posted by: She says Nobama! | November 4, 2008, 8:27 am 8:27 am
“Republicans may not realize it yet, but it’s not just John McCain who is going down in this election. It’s also guys like Matt Drudge and propaganda machines like FOX News. They may maintain their influence within the shrinking world of the conservative right wing, but the rest of America has said goodbye and good riddance to their lies and distortions.”
Posted by: Blue | November 4, 2008, 8:28 am 8:28 am
Nobody seems to want to wait for the final result. Patience is no longer the virtue it once was. And what’s with all this polling? Why do we need polls? If someone can come up with a poll to provide me some good stock picks, I’m listening. But the rest of it? Bah!
Posted by: jcarob | November 4, 2008, 8:29 am 8:29 am
She says Nobama!,
Who is this Hillary Rodem Clinton? I DO know a Hillary Rodham Clinton, though. Watched her stumping in Florida with Obama, she was fantastic!
On-the-job-training? McCain needs on the job training- he doesn’t seem to know he can’t just press the button to send nuclear warheads on Iran no matter how much he wants to. Oh, and Sarah Palin still doesn’t know what the VP does- and actually thought Cheney was a model VP!
We shall see indeed :)
Posted by: Grey Matter | November 4, 2008, 8:33 am 8:33 am
The evil man himself…
Rove Calls the Election — for Obama
The Architect sees a 338-200 Obama electoral vote victory over McCain.
Obama 08
Posted by: Mike NC | November 4, 2008, 8:34 am 8:34 am
Pay very close attention to the way that the media outlets call the battleground states tonight. They will be very quick to call states for Sen. Obama (even at the risk of possibly later having to retract the call). BUT they will be very slow to call states for Sen. McCain. That is how the media will attempt to influence the outcome in the western battleground states.
Posted by: James Danley | November 4, 2008, 8:39 am 8:39 am
I hope everyone reads Steve Cuozzo’s post about the Fioxnews poll
the one outlier ,,,isn’t that funny
Foxnews is way to the right
wake up people…
more than Bush
More than Cheney
More than anyone or anything else
the last decade is the direct result of GOP operatives getting together a decade ago to create a biased network
that would throw our country so far off course
it would not recognize what it would become over the last 8 years.
Foxnews… is inherently evil.
seriously and we need to do something aboutit…
they are not balancing coverage…they are warping the truth…and making it look like the other networks are overwhelmingly left…when in all actuality…they are trying to be center.
get rid of Foxnews turn it off
this post clearly shows …and the polls they do of their viewers clearly show…they are whacked.
Posted by: dl | November 4, 2008, 8:45 am 8:45 am
Ayers just voted for Obama in Chicago in exactly same place Obama is voting now guess more peoples from same neighborhood Reverend Wrigh, Louis Farrakhan, Tony Rezko will be voting soon.
Posted by: Steave Cuozzo | November 4, 2008, 8:47 am 8:47 am
Blue, and should Sen. Obama win tonight you (we) will soon say goodbye to your (our) First Amendment rights. Sen. Obama’s million member Civilian National Security Force will see to it!
Posted by: James Danley | November 4, 2008, 8:49 am 8:49 am
geevill,
Your ticket has ZERO ground game. Who’s fault is that?
Not ours. What voter fraud “thugs”? The one challenging all the new voter applications is always the GOP, I wonder why. The Supreme Court has been throwing them out this time.
You combat ANY voter fraud by having a good ground game, volunteers, lawyers and law students to assist voters. We’ve learnt our lesson this time around.
Posted by: Grey Matter | November 4, 2008, 8:50 am 8:50 am
James Danley
your Repub paranoia is showing, if you wanr to talk about rights vanishing, just examine Bush, Cheney and the ‘signing statements’ over the last 8 years….
Posted by: Blue | November 4, 2008, 8:51 am 8:51 am
Blue,
You are right.
Who shredded people’s rights to habeas corpus with the PATRIOT Act? Torture? The Geneva Convention? Abusing of human rights and misleading the public to invade a (wrong) country?
Posted by: Grey Matter | November 4, 2008, 8:53 am 8:53 am
Geevill is right! This morning Republican Party Election Board members have been tossed out of at least seven polling stations in Philadelphia because of their party status.
Posted by: James Danley | November 4, 2008, 8:55 am 8:55 am
James Danley,
Considering their thuggish behaviour and overenthusiasm to challenge voting registrations, I don’t see why.
Posted by: Grey Matter | November 4, 2008, 8:59 am 8:59 am
Grey Matter, you should do your homework regarding habeas corpus. The law of the land WAS that foreign individuals taken prisoner during war and detained outside the boundaries of the United States, even if under American command, were not entitled to a writ of habeas corpus. That is what the U. S. Supreme Court ruled during WWII. That ruling stood until it was recently overturned by the current U. S. Supreme Court. SO President Bush only followed the existing law until it was overturned.
Now as for misleading the public to invade a “wrong” country, again you should do your homework. The invasion of Iraq was under a UN mandate. The reason we invaded Iraq was because Saddam Hussein failed for 12 years to comply with the conditions of the 1991 cease fire. So after diplomacy failed, President Bush rescinded the cease fire and resumed the Gulf War.
Posted by: James Danley | November 4, 2008, 9:04 am 9:04 am
Grey Matter, a judge had already ruled that the court-appointed poll watchers could NOT be removed. Yet they were removed because they were Republicans. THAT is how Sen. Obama works!
Posted by: James Danley | November 4, 2008, 9:08 am 9:08 am
Whatever, Concerned.
I have come to the conclusion you are indeed OCD, from how you took special care to use zero instead of the “O” key and your incoherent mumblings about the two world wars thing and freaking out.
You seriously need to get a life. Or just chill.
Do you even know what a ground game is? I am talking about the volunteers, phone-bankers, poll watchers, for example.
Posted by: Grey Matter | November 4, 2008, 9:18 am 9:18 am
Wow, that is most impressive. I think Obama has it locked. I sure hope so anyways. God help us all if that idiot McBush pulls it off! LOL
Jiff
Posted by: JamesSpader | November 4, 2008, 9:58 am 9:58 am
Dixville Notch only has 19 registered voters, yet 21 people cast their ballots. Does ACORN have a field office in Dixville Notch too?!
Posted by: Will | November 4, 2008, 10:02 am 10:02 am
Axelrod had the ground game strategy from day one. Not even the Karl Rove-like smear tactics can overcome grass roots organization.
Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | November 4, 2008, 10:08 am 10:08 am
Grey Matter
the worst of it was tho’, that someone like McCain
with all he had been through, had taken a stand against torture,… only to reverse himself and side with Bush & Cheney on torture…..just to get elected…… no country first… there my friends……
Posted by: Blue | November 4, 2008, 11:06 am 11:06 am
Blue, so you’re upset that President Bush authorized three cases of waterboarding in order to protect us against another attack. But where is your outrage regarding the hundreds of cases of waterboarding that the anti-war protesters conducted during their demonstrations–just for the “fun” of it?
Posted by: James Danley | November 4, 2008, 11:39 am 11:39 am
Coos County picked right about 9 out of 11 times. The folks there look like an accurate microcosm of national voting. Hope so!
Posted by: kat | November 4, 2008, 11:54 am 11:54 am
Actually there were 23 voters. 2 votes went to Ron Paul. Why am I not suprised Mr. Tapper left that fact out.
Posted by: Ben Straub | November 4, 2008, 12:37 pm 12:37 pm
James Danley
you seem to trust what your told by Bush, I do not… Abu Ghraib, rendition to foreign bases, who really knows what else, … years in prison without a trial……. it’s not American…
the nazi’s at Nuremberg had faster trials and that was after a global war.
Posted by: Blue | November 4, 2008, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm
Blue, apparently you trust Obama. Well, in Philadelphia there are now reports that a polling place had two Black Panthers (one with a nightstick) intimidating voters by guarding the entrance. One is reported to have said, “We are tired of white supremacy.” So THAT is how Sen. Obama works!
Posted by: James Danley | November 4, 2008, 1:45 pm 1:45 pm
Blue, prisoners of war are not normally given trials. Generally only those who have committed war crimes are tried. During WWII there were many prisoners on both sides who were held for years. Once the war was over they were released. There was no expectations for trials or even being able to talk to a lawyer. Should Sen. Obama win and the Democrats get that super majority they are seeking, it wouldn’t surprise me if they passed a law that required Miranda warnings for even those individuals captured on foreign battlefields.
Posted by: James Danley | November 4, 2008, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm
James Danley,
Gitmo prisoners are called enemy combatants, not prisoners of war.
If they were prisoners of war we would have to honor the Geneva Convention.
I can’t believe someone is actually defending torture by this country.
Posted by: Ryan C | November 4, 2008, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm
Ryan C, they may have be called “enemy combatants” but they are still prisoners of war. By the way, President Bush did order that these “enemy combatants” be treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention in spite of not technically meeting the definition of a “prisoner of war.”
I have a hypothetical question for you. If you knew an individual had knowledge of a nuclear device set to go off in a large population center in one hour, do you sit down and have tea with him and discuss the his feelings? Or would you attempt to extract the information from him by using whatever method you can knowing that 100,000 lives could be on the line?
Posted by: James Danley | November 4, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm
The Iowa GOP appears to be distancing itself from a Monday effort to challenge thousands of student ballots at Grinnell College.
Repubs are ‘soooooo American’ that every 4 years they try and stop citizens from voting..
Posted by: Blue | November 4, 2008, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm
Joe the Plumber is short on cash and unemployed … “I got no financial offers. I am broke,” Joe Wurzelbacher said Monday
Old ‘Joe’ is too misinformed to understand who has lead him to being broke…..aka. Republicans. Like many, he continually votes against his own best economic interests by voting republican.
Obama said: “they take pride in their own ignorance”….. ‘Joe’ is but another example of Obama being correct again.
Posted by: Blue | November 4, 2008, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm
Ben Straub, the two votes fro Ron Paul were not in Dixville Notch. They were in Hart’s Location, where Obama got 17 votes and McCain got 10.
Posted by: Rick M | November 4, 2008, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm
“Ryan C, they may have be called “enemy combatants” but they are still prisoners of war. By the way, President Bush did order that these “enemy combatants” be treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention in spite of not technically meeting the definition of a “prisoner of war.”"
Bush didn’t order anything. The Supreme Court had to step in, first ruling that Geneva Conventions applied and later that Constitutional rights applied as well.
I would think someone who claimed to love this country and its Constitution would fiercely defend it vs a despotic administration that trampled on it.
Posted by: Ryan C | November 4, 2008, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm
“If you knew an individual had knowledge of a nuclear device set to go off in a large population center in one hour, do you sit down and have tea with him and discuss the his feelings? Or would you attempt to extract the information from him by using whatever method you can knowing that 100,000 lives could be on the line?”
Stop watching 24.
Here’s a scenario for you, a 15 year old boy is caught in the midst of a firefight near his village and is captured by Americans. He is taken to Gitmo where he is tortured repeatedly and held for years without any charges or trial.
The difference between my scenario and yours? Yours was part of fictional plot of a television program. Mine actually happened to the great shame of this country.
Posted by: Ryan C | November 4, 2008, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm
Voter in pa, there are dozens of witnesses to the two Black Panthers intimidating voters. The police were called out so there is an official report. The nightstick welding Black Panther was ordered to leave. The other was an official poll watcher so he remained.
Posted by: James Danley | November 4, 2008, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm
Voter in pa, there is VIDEO of the two Black Panthers with one welding a nightstick. IT IS NOT A LIE.
Posted by: James Danley | November 4, 2008, 3:46 pm 3:46 pm
Fox News and other conservatives on the Web are pushing hard on the story that two black panthers may be intimidating voters at a polling place in north Philadelphia.
But an Obama campaign volunteer who’s been on the scene since 6:30 AM this morning tells me in a phone interview that there’s been absolutely no intimidation of voters at all today. And a Pennsylvania spokesperson for Obama said the two men aren’t in any way affiliated with the campaign.
Posted by: Blue | November 4, 2008, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm
Ryan C. Omar, Khadr (a Canadian) is charged with lobbing a grenade that killed U. S. Special Forces Sgt 1st Class Christopher James Speer after a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan. The Pentagon denies that he was tortured. The marks on his body could have been inflicted by his father or al Qaeda before the firefight.
Posted by: James Danley | November 4, 2008, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm
The Iowa GOP appears to be distancing itself from a Monday effort to challenge thousands of student ballots at Grinnell College.
Repubs are ‘soooooo American’ that every 4 years they try and stop citizens from voting..
Posted by: Blue
And you have the Black Panthers
Posted by: Mac | November 4, 2008, 8:00 pm 8:00 pm