Clark Wins Inital N.H. Primary Votes (Pick the winners!)

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Clark Wins Inital N.H. Primary Votes

Jan 27, 12:34 AM (ET)

By STEPHEN FROTHINGHAM

DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. (AP) - Wesley Clark won the initial votes cast Tuesday morning in New Hampshire's Democratic presidential primary, the first to be counted in a state primary this year.

Clark had been the only major candidate to visit two of the state's smallest hamlets - Dixville Notch and Hart's Location - where residents cast and count their votes in the early minutes of Election Day.

Clark won Dixville with 8 votes. Sen. John Kerry had 3, Sen. John Edwards 2 and Howard Dean and Sen. Joe Lieberman 1 each. Clark received 6 votes in Hart's Location. Kerry had 5, Dean 3 and Edwards 2.

Clark was on hand in Dixville at the Balsam's hotel as the ballots were counted minutes after midnight.

Officials and voters in both far northern towns had predicted the retired four-star general likely would be rewarded. "I'm predicting a win for the general," Michael Pearson, a Dixville Notch selectman, said before the vote.

There are no registered Democrats in Dixville Notch, population 33, and just five in Hart's Location, which has 39 residents. But state law allows independents to register with a party at the polling place and vote in its primary. Most of Dixville Notch's 16 independents and Hart's 14 were expected to vote in the Democratic primary.

Dixville marked a milestone, the first presidential primary since town patriarch Neil Tillotson died two years ago at 102.

Tillotson was the moderator at Town Meeting and owner of the Balsams and an adjacent latex factory. From 1960 to 2000, he marked midnight on his wristwatch and cast the first vote.

This year the hour was marked by Tillotson's son, Tom, the new moderator. The name of the first voter was drawn from a hat.

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Re: There are no registered Democrats in Dixville Notch...

What a beautiful situation!

Okay, my guess is:

1. Kerry

2. Clark

3. Dean

4. Edwards

5. Lieberman

6. Dan Rather

[goldstategop]

Apparently they like a Mad Hare general in Northern New Hampshire.

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Re: Apparently they like a Mad Hare general in Northern New Hampshire.

Her Ankleship will be soooo pleased! The First Felon, too...

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You have any picks?

[NMFXSTC]

Kinda makes you real happy that your political contributions fund such junkets, doesn't it?

[fishbabe]

could it be that voters don't want this to end too quickly....they want these guys to keep running,instead of having one guy win the first few primaries and be declared the winner....obviously , the voters aren't too sure about any of these losers, and don't want the wrong one crowned too soon!!!!!