Dixville Notch, Hart's Location voters go for Obama

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New Hampshire Union Leader
November 4, 2008

Barack Obama came up a big winner in the presidential race in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location, where the tradition of having the first Election Day ballots tallied lives on.

Democrat Obama defeated Republican John McCain by a count of 15 to 6 in Dixville Notch. The town of Hart's Location reported 17 votes for Obama, 10 for McCain and two for write-in Ron Paul.

The first Dixville Notch voter, following tradition established in 1948, was picked ahead of the midnight voting and the rest of the town's 21 registered voters followed suit.

The last time the town backed a Democrat was in 1968 when Hubert Humphrey was preferred to Richard Nixon.

President Bush won the town in a landslide in the past two elections. He captured 73 percent of the vote in 2004 (19 residents picked Bush while six chose Sen. John Kerry), and secured 80 percent of the vote in 2000 (21 votes for Bush, five for Al Gore).

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I think Dixville Notch should decide all presidential races and save the rest of us the trouble of voting. It wouldn't matter much who they chose anyway, right?

This particular election made it clearer than ever to me that the "expert" pundits of the corporate MSM are a crucial mechanism to ensuring that it's impossible for anyone outside the system to be a viable candidate for high office. They will destroy (or ignore) anyone they believe is unsuitable as "inexperienced" or "unqualified." These words are conversive terms that people think they understand, but seem really to be mere euphemisms for "vetted by the status quo." i.e. already playing the game of pleasing lobbyists, special interests foreign and domestic, banks, corporations, high-powered and moneyed groups, and the shady think tanks that unaccountably determine US foreign policy. Thus, a "suitable" candidate is corrupt and blackmailable by these influences, each of which is utterly self-serving. Of course, the opinions of these "experts" will hold sway over the public, and interest will be diverted to "suitable" candidates. Should some miracle occur by which the "elected" decide to act on their own, a killer skeleton will pop out of the closet, or a JFK-style fate might even await. JFK may have underestimated the danger, but surely the message is loud and clear to all in higher political circles now.

Can't we tell a campaign is between or among corrupt candidates when the "issues" are anything and everything EXCEPT truth vs. lies? Even an honest person would have to "play the game," I suppose, if they still retained some perspective on serving others vs. serving self. After all, what chance would the truth have on an STS world? There is some audience for it, certainly, but a minority, I would bet. It would be lovely if the new agers are right -- those who believe Obama to be a ray of light merely disguised as a slick, professional politician, ready to "shake things up" when he takes office. Yes, they say he is unable to speak about 9/11, posse comitatus, habeus corpus, the Fed, the PATRIOT Act, the Bush Doctrine, and the dictatorial powers grabbed by the executive branch -- not until he takes the reins. We'll shortly see. But seeing the joy and relief and sense of victory among the ordinary folks around me today, one would think that Obama had addressed these things. But he hasn't -- folks seem to have accepted their shackles. So, the jubiliation of so many appears baseless to me, which has got me feeling rather down.

 

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Yes, they say he is unable to speak about 9/11, posse comitatus, habeus corpus, the Fed, the PATRIOT Act, the Bush Doctrine, and the dictatorial powers grabbed by the executive branch -- not until he takes the reins. We'll shortly see.

or never if Bush suspend the election using his Directive 51 around the 12 http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=10647.0

So, the jubiliation of so many appears baseless to me, which has got me feeling rather down.

Same.