I Voted Today in the "1st in the Nation" NH Primary

I just returned from voting in the New Hampshire Primary.  

"Primary?" you say.  "You're voting in the Republican primary?"

I'm voting in the NH Primary and there is a Democratic ballot.  It's one of 17 states designated "Open Primary" although it is technically a "semi-Open Primary" state for reasons stated below: 

It is not a closed primary, in which votes can be cast in a party primary only by people registered with that party. Undeclared voters — those not registered with any party — can vote in either party primary. However, it does not meet a common definition of an open primary, because people registered as Republican or Democrat on voting day cannot cast ballots in the primary of the other party.^{[1]  Wikipedia}

Reported results thus far from our two smallest precincts who voted 12:01AM this morning.

Dixville Notch, NH  has 9 registered voters. They turn out 100%.

         Barack Obama    3 votes

         Mitt Romney        2 votes

         Jon Huntsman      2 votes

         Newt Gingrich      1 vote                                 

         Ron Paul              1 votes          

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8 Votes of Separation & Buh Bye Bachmann

Mitt Romney beats Rick Santorum by 8 votes.  Woo hoo!  He's on a roll now.  

Perry Tucks Tail,  Hightails to Texas to "reassess".  

Michelle Bachmann bows out in self-righteous style channeling Horton the Elephant  "I mean what I say and I say what I mean" and Prof. Harold Hill  'We Got Trouble Right Here in River City" which coincidentally takes place in I-O-WAY.  This woman can really yammer on.   She asserts the founding fathers wanted her to defeat Obamacare and Dodd-Frank among other things, and to "protect" us from Obama's socialism, our security, heterosexual marriage blah blah blah.

 If you want to waste another 10 minutes, here's the speech.  She's here for us.  

Newt in a snit.

Ron Paul & Rick Santorum...who cares?

Things to Come

First 2012 Republican Presidential Debate
June 13th 2010 New Hampshire
(AP photo)

You didn't think I'd let the very first Presidential debate go by without some kind of commentary, didya?

Held in our very own little "First in the Nation State" of New Hampshire last night at St. Anselm's College, the debate was moderated by John King who is excellent at keeping the talky talkers on point.  He did not allow diarrhea of the mouth or refusal to answer the question asked.  He was awesome!

Mitt did a good job.  He didn't talk too much and looked the part which is what everyone says about him anyway.  The big surprise to me was Michelle Bachmann.  I heard Joe Scarborough repeat someone else's comment along the lines of "...someone got her off the crazy juice" because she sounded reasonable.

Newt is toast.  Not sure why he showed up.  SNL did a great spoof of him leaving the debate a few weekends back after the moderator asked him, "You don't really want to be here do you?"

No reason to comment on the rest of the herd.  They stayed away from criticizing one another and stuck to a repititve onslaught of  Obama bashing.  It became just so much rhetoric.  

I lasted 45 minutes then turned to a much more interesting HBO movie called "A Matter of Taste" about Chef Paul Liebrandt.

Now that was theatre!