The Battle of Dixville Notch and Other Signs of What's To Come

<![CDATA[Being that I live on the West Coast, I was not quite as bleary-eyed as political junkies in the East as the six registered voters in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire held to their Midnight tradition of being the first in the nation to cast same-day ballots. It's the quadrennial equivalent of Groundhog Day, but it does mark the official dropping of the green flag for whatever is to come our way by the time polls close tonight.To give you a little history of the tiny community of Dixville Notch, in 2016, the six registered residents voted 4-2 in favor of Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Clinton would go on to eke out a statewide 0.4% victory. In 2020, Joe Biden shut out Donald Trump for the five votes available in that cycle, before going on to win the Granite State by 7.4%. At the stroke of Midnight, all six current residents of Dixville Notch filed into the Ballot Room to hear the obligatory rendition of the National Anthem on accordian. ]]>