27 January 2004

For those of you who didn't stay up for the early-morning votes, I've got you covered.

Wesley Clark won in Dixville Notch with 8 votes, which is one more than all his opponents combined. Kerry had 3, Edwards 2, and Leiberman and Dean tied with one each. There was a pretty good crowd on hand - for the 20something voters in the town, there were at least five times as many on hand from the press and various campaigns. Ironically - given his vote total - there were two guys in the crowd wearing Dean t-shirts.

And as the only candidate to make the trip, Wes Clark showed up to make some comments after the totals were given. Not that I could tell you much of what he said, given CSPAN's cracker jack coverage. They seemed to have a stationary camera and a shoulder camera, with no audio feed outside of whatever microphones are on the cameras. They also had lousy locations, to the point where a guy who raised his hand to ask Clark a question blocked the mobile camera's view entirely.

They also had someone phone in results from Hart's Location (still trying to get a piece of the early voting pie), and they had similar results, though with less of a spread. Though I did notice that Leiberman didn't get any votes here, while there was one write in. That's got to make him feel good.

I should note for completeness sake that Bush won the Republican primary in both towns with 100 percent of the votes.

All in all a very satisfactory exercise of the franchise, which will descend into the morass tomorrow with all the vote grubbing and exit polling and such.

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