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sandensea

(22,850 posts)
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 05:14 PM Nov 2020

Dixville Notch, NH, was divided in 2016. This year was a Biden sweep.

One of the first communities in the nation to reveal its election results voted unanimously for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden early Tuesday, marking only the second time a candidate has swept the tiny New Hampshire hamlet in its 60-year tradition of midnight voting.

All five voters in Dixville Notch, about 20 miles south of the Canadian border, gathered at the now-closed Balsams Resort to become some of the first people in the country to formally submit their decisions.

The residents drop paper ballots into a wooden box, and the votes are counted by hand.

The only other time the community’s voters have been in agreement was when all nine chose Republican Richard Nixon over Democrat John F. Kennedy in 1960, the tradition’s first year.

At: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/this-tiny-nh-hamlet-was-divided-in-2016-this-year-was-a-biden-sweep/ar-BB1aETWY



Tanner Tillotson writes the results of ballots cast in Dixville Notch, N.H., shortly after midnight on Tuesday.

Democratic nominee Joe Biden carried all five of the hamlet's votes - the first sweep there since 1960.
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Dixville Notch, NH, was divided in 2016. This year was a Biden sweep. (Original Post) sandensea Nov 2020 OP
So It Was JFK That Got Shutout? sfstaxprep Nov 2020 #1
As very rural hamlets tend to be, it was pretty conservative for a long time sandensea Nov 2020 #2
Well, Given Hillary & Biden Are First To Ever Win The Vote There.... sfstaxprep Nov 2020 #3
It takes a while for rural voters to change their ways sometimes sandensea Nov 2020 #4
 

sfstaxprep

(10,599 posts)
1. So It Was JFK That Got Shutout?
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 05:16 PM
Nov 2020

Wow! I had just assumed it was Nixon. Guess Dixville Notch got that one wrong.

sandensea

(22,850 posts)
2. As very rural hamlets tend to be, it was pretty conservative for a long time
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 05:19 PM
Nov 2020

Republicans usually won there through the years.

Hillary was the first Democrat to win Dixville Notch - and now, the Biden sweep.

As a former New Hampshire legislator once put it to me: "We're rural, not stupid."

 

sfstaxprep

(10,599 posts)
3. Well, Given Hillary & Biden Are First To Ever Win The Vote There....
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 05:20 PM
Nov 2020

I'd say they're fairly Stupid.

sandensea

(22,850 posts)
4. It takes a while for rural voters to change their ways sometimes
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 05:23 PM
Nov 2020

But they've made it pretty clear now.

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