Good Openning:Obama Wins Dixville Notch

BBC NEWS:

In Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, he won 15 votes to his Republican rival John McCain‘s six, becoming the first Democrat to win there since 1968.

The town’s 21 registered voters came out in cold weather to carry on the tradition of casting the nation’s first votes just after midnight.

When the results were announced, the ballot room at Balsams hotel was resounding with thunderous applause.

“I’m not going to say I wasn’t surprised,” said Obama supporter Tanner Nelson Tillotson, whose name was drawn from a bowl to make him Dixville Notch’s first voter.