This was posted on afro.com around noon Tuesday, eight hours before the polls closed in New Hampshire. Ten and a half hours later, it was close but no cigar for Obama. I'll post my wrap-up news story here a little later today. To use an altered sports cliche, wait 'til South Carolina.
btw, I shot the two pictures with a Nikon Coolpix loaned to me by the newspaper.
Obama already a winner in parts of New Hampshire
By Monroe Anderson
AFRO Staff Writer
NASHUA, N.H. -- Barack Obama was the undisputed winner in the earliest results of the New Hampshire Democratic primary. In a long-running tradition, two remote mountain tiny towns, Dixville Notch and Hart's Location, in the Granite state's northern region, cast their ballots at midnight.
The polls are immediately closed then to tally the results. 
Obama received seven votes in Dixville Notch, which has 74 residents. Meanwhile, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton didn’t receive any votes. Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards got two votes and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson one, according to the Associated Press.
In Hart's Location, population 42, Obama received nine votes, Clinton three and Edwards one.
New Hampshire law allows towns of fewer than 100 residents to open polls after midnight so that their residents can cast the first votes of the first primary in the nation. The ballots can only be counted after all registered voters have participated.
Polls close between 6 and 8 p.m. for all the rest of the towns and cities in the state.
The vote in the tiny towns could be a prelude to the final results, according to exit polls. One exit poll places the Illinois senator four points ahead of his closest rival, Clinton, and another gives him a seven point advantage. 
Voter turnout was extremely heavy, with long lines at some voting sites. There are reports that so many showed up at polling places in Portsmouth, voting officials ran out of ballots.
Obama held an early rally for the candidate at Dartmouth College in Hanover. He made a couple of stops at coffee shops and campaign offices to thank supporters and check on voter turnout.
Obama will close out the day at a primary night rally at Nashua South High School. He is expected to talk at about 11 p.m., depending on the polls
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