Hillary Clinton wins Dixville Notch midnight vote

Hillary Clinton wins Dixville Notch midnight vote

Hillary Clinton 4, Donald Trump 2, Gary Johnson 1 -- and a single write-in surprise: Mitt Romney.

With eight residents voting and five times as many reporters watching, Dixville Notch has spoken.

On a frigid night in the largely forgotten region about halfway between the Maine and Canadian borders, the small northern New Hampshire town came alive for several minutes of kitschy democratic conflict. This latest round of wee hours voting extends a tradition that traces back more than a half-century.

With the results in from Dixville Notch this long-awaited Election Day is officially underway, and sure as the Earth turns on its axis, the end of the 2016 presidential contest seems impossibly closer.

The Granite State's tight Senate race will enter Election Day deadlocked, with Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan and incumbent Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte each Dixville notching 4 votes.

Tuesday night's result will hearten superstitious Clinton supporters. The town's small collection of dedicated voters have correctly picked the eventual winner in three of the last four contests. In 2000 and 2004 it broke for George W. Bush and in 2008 it delivered a victory for Barack Obama.

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Barring Something Unforeseen, Hillary Clinton Will Be The Democratic Nominee

Barring Something Unforeseen, Hillary Clinton Will Be The Democratic Nominee

Hillary Clinton now has 2,141 delegates (with pledged and super delegates combined), as of midnight Wednesday.

That means she is 90 percent of the way to the 2,383 delegates she needs to clinch the Democratic nomination.

Taking super delegates out of the equation, she leads Bernie Sanders by 351 pledged delegates. (Clinton has 1,622 to Sanders' 1,282.) Sanders would need two-thirds of all remaining pledged delegates to overtake Clinton in that count.

Clinton could lose every single remaining contest in every single remaining state by more than 20 points and still get a pledged majority.

That is a virtual impossibility.

But super delegates should not be excluded. Yes, they won't officially vote until this summer's convention. And, yes, they can vote however they want, but Clinton has a 519-to-39 lead with these elected officials and party leaders. Without Sanders winning the pledged majority, his only argument is that he polls better than Clinton at this point against Donald Trump. That is hardly an argument most seasoned politicians are going to buy at this point.

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Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump: 'Cut it out'

Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump: 'Cut it out'

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton told her Republican counterpart to "cut it out" late Thursday night, after Donald Trump fuelled controversy by declining to correct an audience member who referred to President Barack Obama as a Muslim.

In her Twitter message, Hillary Clinton commented as follows:

"Donald Trump not denouncing false statements about POTUS & hateful rhetoric about Muslims is disturbing, & just plain wrong. Cut it out," Clinton tweeted Thursday night. She signed the tweet with an "-H," which signifies that she wrote it.

Trump took questions at a rally in New Hampshire on Thursday evening. The first questioner called Obama a Muslim, said he was not American, and asked Trump when "we can get rid" of Muslim "training camps."

 

"We have a problem in this country - it's called Muslims," the man said. "We know our current president is one. You know he's not even an American - birth certificate, man. ... We have training camps growing, where they want to kill us. That's my question. When can we get rid of them?" the questioner said.

Trump responded: "We're going to be looking at a lot of different things. You know, a lot of people are saying that, and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there. We're going to look at that and plenty of other things."

Critics almost immediately blasted Trump for not correcting the questioner to note that Obama was born in the US and is a Christian. Trump has a several years-long history of controversy questioning Obama's birthplace, and he said in July he doesn't know if Obama was born in the US.

Allegations of Muslim "training camps" within the US has long stirred suspicion on the right. The far-right publication World Net Daily, for example, has alleged that the FBI has knowledge of more than 20 such "training camps" within the US. Some of those allegations have found their way into more mainstream media.

The Democratic National Committee also pounced on Trump's remarks late Thursday night, accusing him of "racism."

"GOP front-runner Donald Trump's racism knows no bounds," DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said in a statement. "This is certainly horrendous but unfortunately unsurprising given what we have seen already. The vile rhetoric coming from the GOP candidates is appalling.

 

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio- "if this election is a resume competition, then, Hillary Clinton's going to be the next president”

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio- "if this election is a resume competition, then, Hillary Clinton's going to be the next president”

While the Republican candidates debated Thursday night (7 August 2015), Democratic campaigns tried to make the most of the moment, offering rapid response.

It came in response to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's answer to a question about whether he has enough experience.

When Rubio said "if this election is a resume competition, then Hillary Clinton's going to be the next president," cheers went up in Clinton HQ. And the campaign tweeted that it rated Rubio's statement true.

Tamara Keith- NPR White House Correspondent covering the Democrats running for President- in his Twitter message briefed that- In the press file at Clinton campaign HQ for debate night, giant posters of GOP candidates praising Clinton.