Trump takes 32-25 lead in New Hampshire after midnight voting
Source: USA Today
As the world waits with bated breath for the results of Tuesday's contentious presidential election, its eyes turned briefly to three sleepy hamlets in rural New Hampshire, as their residents fewer than 100 total became the first in the nation to cast their ballots.
In Dixville Notch, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump 4-2. Libertarian Gary Johnson received one vote, and the 2012 Republican candidate, Mitt Romney received a surprise write-in ballot. In the slightly larger burg of Hart's Location, Clinton won with 17 votes to Trump's 14. Johnson got three of Hart's Location votes, while write-ins Bernie Sanders and John Kasich each got one vote. And in Millsfield, Trump won decisively, 16-4, with one write-in for Bernie Sanders.
So, in the three New Hampshire towns with midnight voting, Trump came out ahead 32-25.
According to New Hampshire law, communities with under 100 voters can open their polls at midnight and close them as soon as all registered voters have cast their ballots.
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/11/08/midnight-new-hampshire-voting/93455396/
Don't read too much into the results from these towns. They lean conservative and tend to vote Republican. Dixville voted for the Republican in every election since 1960 including Barry Goldwater who lost in a landslide to Lyndon Johnson until going for Obama in 2008, and splitting the vote between Romney and Obama in 2012.
Since reviving midnight voting, Hart's Location voted for Dole in 1996, Bush in 2000 and 2004, and, like Dixvillem, broke with tradition to vote for Obama in 2008 and 2012.
Dixville had a better track record in the GOP primary and predicted every Republican nominee since 1968 (counting ties in 1980 and 2012), but that streak came to a crashing halt when Donald Trump walked into town and John Kasich edged out the future nominee 3-2.
Obama was a different, one of a kind, candidate.
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)Don't spoil my mood! Just saying....
MADem
(135,425 posts)forkol
(113 posts)Write ins, interesting. Looks like if Republicans had a moderate candidate the Dixiville vote would have been essentially tied.
I think there's going to be a much larger amount of write-in for Republicans this time around, for those that still want to vote, but not for Trump.
Fairly strong showing for Gary Johnson, but it does tend to be an area for independent/libertarian thinking.
However, I think the few that did go Bernie here are because of the proximity to Vermont. There will be some write-in for him in other states tomorrow, but I don't think it's going to be at the level of write-ins for Republicans.
Democat
(11,617 posts)If Trump had won Dixville Notch and Clinton had won the overall, the only headline would have been about Dixville Notch.
The media wants to find a pro-Trump headline no matter what.
Cobalt Violet
(9,905 posts)I love hiking and camping there.
Don't freak out about these numbers. These are very rural locations. Southern NH is much more populated and much more blue.
modrepub
(3,496 posts)It's the first territory to close and it does so in half an hour. I think they've picked every president for the last couple of cycles.
Yonnie3
(17,444 posts)modrepub
(3,496 posts)They've picked the winning candidate in every straw poll taken since 1980 except in 1996 when a Typhoon closed the polls for a day.
If it matters Clinton got 71% of the vote. Good news if you believe in Trends.
http://www.guampdn.com/story/news/local/election-2016/2016/11/08/clinton-takes-strong-lead-straw-poll/93472300/
Yonnie3
(17,444 posts)So I stand corrected, sort of. The straw poll picks them.
It looks good for her there.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)What a stupid headline. It s should say, 100 convservatives voted mostly for Trump. Someone really F'd up there.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Wow, literally "32-25". This election is over, folks.
christx30
(6,241 posts)"So goes midnight voting in New Hampshire, so goes the election."
No one knew what he was talking about at the time, but wise words indeed.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)That's really not enough to go on to make any conclusions. Totally stupid to report on this.