Dixville Knox, NH goes for Obama. First time a D since '68 - n/t

The Gladly Effect:

A phenomenon first observed in the 2008 U.S. presidential election in which white voters who in the past might have harbored racially motivated misgivings about voting for a minority candidate gladly voted for the mixed-race Democratic nominee, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, rather than painfully endure four more years of a Republican presidency in the wake of George W. Bush’s disastrous eight years in office. Obama’s truthful refrain that the GOP nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, voted in favor of Bush’s policies more than 90 percent of the time is generally cited as the catalyst for The Gladly Effect in the 2008 contest.

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1669776-gladly-effect-far-more-likely-than-bradley-effect

Do you have the count?

15 Obama, 6 MCcain, and someone else might have gotten a few.

:kick:

This is going to be a good day, y'all.

This is awesome!

It's a great sign that a normally Republican area went heavily for Obama, the first time a Democrat won it in 40 years.

Yes, it will be mentioned that when Humphrey won it in 1968, he still lost the General Election to Nixon.

However, it must be noted that Humphrey was down by double-digits to Nixon in the latest polls before the 1968 election, so it was very likely he wasn't going to win anyway.



http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/sunday/news/ny-txtprev025908755nov02,0,6652370.story

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NIXON-HUMPHREY, 1968. During general election campaigning, most polls showed Democrat Hubert Humphrey trailing Republican Richard Nixon by double-digits. Many blue-collar Democrats had thrown their support to American Independent Party candidate George Wallace. But as the election neared, many Wallace supporters shifted to Humphrey and the election ended up closer than expected in key states and overall. Nixon won the popular vote by about 512,000 votes, or one percentage point.
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It is different this time, not only does the Democrat have a 7 to 12 point lead in national polls, he also won a typically Republican bellweather area of New Hampshire.

Cue the band to play Happy Days Are Here again.

Now you spin around three times and spit.