Well said! I think the voters in these small towns know that there will be much publicity given to their voting results.
I think, what a lot of people here are overlooking is that this election is different. If little town goes McCain, little town becomes racist by default to all of America. The national publicity and the race factor are what many people are overlooking here.
Harts Location is also in a way PUBLIC voting (its been doing it since 1996). They both had way more votes for Obama than Hillary. Hillary won NH. Its cause they know their vote will be THE FIRST to be shown (Harts Location isnt shown on TV, but theyre released early). So, I would discount these votes. Lets get real, folks. They went for Bob Dole in 1996 and GW Bush in 2004 (2 losses, 1 win, Bush in 2000). The Dixville Notch went for Humphrey in 68 (loss), Ford in 76 (loss), Bush I in 92 (loss), Dole in 96 (loss) and Bush in 04 (loss). Since 1968, Dixville Notch has only picked the winner very few times (Reagan 80, 84, Bush Sr. 88, Nixon 72). Take it for what you will. Heck, even if Mac loses NH, he can still win. NH has been trending Democratic. For it to go for Humphrey in a time when NH was very reliably Republican shows how useless these numbers really are.
New Hampshire is 98% white, and while we do have crunchy Volvo drivers who care about race, none of them live up in the north woods.
That's just not a factor.