Residents of two tiny towns stayed up late to give Barack Obama and John McCain early victories in the New Hampshire presidential primary.
Voters in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location cast the initial ballots just after midnight Tuesday.
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Long-shot GOP hopeful Rep. Duncan Hunter attended the vote in Dixville Notch, where results were announced before 12:06 a.m. in a small room packed with TV cameras and photographers.
"It epitomizes people-to-people politicking," Hunter said minutes before the votes were cast.
Hunter received no votes in either town.
NYT:
In recent days Mr. McCain has packed town hall after town hall and on Monday, the crowds were smaller at the early morning events, but energized.
Mitt Romney’s day got off to a less auspicious start. Greeting workers at the same military equipment company where Mr. McCain had campaigned on Friday, Mr. Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, found only a trickle of workers to shake hands with at 7 a.m. Many of them simply bypassed the candidate and the horde of journalists blocking the front entrance, causing Mr. Romney to move on to his next stop after just 10 minutes.
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