As I wrote about during the primary, Dixville Notch, NH, reports the nations' first returns just after the the stroke of midnight on Election Day. Tonight, in a nearly unprecedented victory, U.S. Senator Barack Obama won 71% of the vote in the decidedly conservative New Hampshire hamlet, defeating U.S. Sen. John McCain 15-6 at the Basalm's Resort.
Kos shows the historical significance of a Dixville win.
In the New Hampshire Senate race, former Governor Jeanne Shaheen defeated Incumbant U.S. Sen. John Sununu in Dixville Notch.
In another popular election bellwether, the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Washington Redskins tonight. Since the Redskins moved to Washington in 1937, politicos have looked to their final game before the Presidential election. If the Redskins win, the party that won the popular vote in the previous election will win on Tuesday. If the Redskins lose, as they did tonight, when Redskins' Quarterback Jason Campbell was made to look foolish at the hands of the fearsome Steelers defense led by Dick LeBeau (who has been in the NFL since the Eisenhower Administration), the party who lost the last popular vote went on to win the Presidential race.
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