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I SERIOUSLY doubt we’re looking at a President Kasich.

http://www.kvlu.org/3-tiny-new-hampshire-towns-voted-at-midnight-do-they-predict-anything/

“They say when Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, it means six more weeks of winter.

When Dixville Notch, in the far northern reaches of New Hampshire, voted just after midnight Tuesday, it didn’t predict six more weeks with Donald Trump.

But as with Pennsylvania’s groundhog, the results - three votes for John Kasich, the only candidate to visit the town, and two for Trump, along with four for Bernie Sanders and zero for Hillary Clinton - are not necessarily predictive.

The town’s 100 percent turnout is quite impressive, if you don’t consider that it hit its 38-vote peak in 1988, according to The Boston Globe. (The Globe also reported that only ten will vote in the town this year.)

These few votes will make headlines Tuesday morning, as they do every four years.

But Dixville Notch has proven less than reliable at predicting what will happen later that day as the rest of the state wakes up and waits hours to cast their ballots.

So why all the attention? Because it’s proven to be pretty good at predicting what will happen later that spring (better than the groundhog). The tiny mountain town near the Canadian border, with a population that has dwindled to 12, has the distinction of correctly predicting the eventual Republican nominee in every election since 1968.

(There have been two ties in its history, though - in 1980 between George H.W. Bush, who did not become the nominee, and Ronald Reagan, who, of course, did; and in 2012, between Mitt Romney and... Jon Huntsman, who got two votes each.)

That predictive power explains why Dixville Notch’s results might get more attention early Tuesday than the other two towns to vote at midnight.”...........................