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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,922 posts)
Tue Feb 11, 2020, 04:46 PM Feb 2020

As quirky as ever, Dixville Notch goes for Bloomberg

DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. — It was 20 minutes to midnight, and I was standing just outside a living room that was crammed with reporters from 27 media outlets who were jostling for position as they prepared to watch five people vote.

It was already a weird night, this tradition that is the midnight vote in Dixville Notch, and it got even weirder when I realized I was standing next to the man who would be the first of those five voters to cast a ballot.

“Are you having any second thoughts about who you’re voting for?” I whispered to Les Otten, the man who saved this strange tradition, thinking I was making small talk.

-snip-

The rotating moved quickly, and by 12:06 the votes were all in and were then read aloud. In a surprise to the TV reporters who were loudly narrating the entire event just inches from the participants, former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg took an early lead, with three write-in votes, including from Otten, the lone Republican voter. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and former South Bend, Ind. mayor Pete Buttigieg split the remaining two votes.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/as-quirky-as-ever-dixville-notch-goes-for-bloomberg/ar-BBZSv5A?li=BBnb4R7

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
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Eh Wabbajack_ Feb 2020 #1
 

Wabbajack_

(1,300 posts)
1. Eh
Tue Feb 11, 2020, 04:48 PM
Feb 2020

More relevant I think is that Amy got 6 votes in Hart's Location (Winning) and 2 votes (also winning) in the other place (Millfield) which is heavily Republican.

MIGHT be evidence of a small surge for Amy.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
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