Barack Obama has won the first poll of the Election Day.
He has imposed by 15 votes to six votes ahead of John McCain in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, whose voters were the first that have the turnout in the election on Tuesday to appoint a new leader for the White House. The polling station opened at exactly midnight for the approximately 21 registered voters. Since 1960, this small town has always been the first that voted on Election Day.
Dixville Notch has about 75 inhabitants, but only 21 of them are registered as voters (five democrats, four Republicans and 12 independents).
Dixville Notch opened the ballot boxes at 12 am, a practice that dates from 1960, and is still attracting dozens of reporters to the isolated village located in the north-eastern state of New Hampshire. In 1996, another city from the state, Hart’s Location, resumed the existing tradition from the 40’s and opened the ballot boxes at midnight without too much fuss in the media.
The last two elections in Dixville Notch were won by the Republican George W. Bush, who won 80% of the votes in 2000 and 73% in 2004. At the primary elections in January of this year, the voters from the small town chose John McCain as their representative in the Republican race and Barack Obama as the Democratic candidate.
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