Obama wins in earliest vote Updated at: 1054 PST, Tuesday, November 04, 2008NEW HAMPSHIRE: Democrat Barack Obama came up a big winner in the presidential race in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, where the nation's first Election Day votes were cast and counted early Tuesday.
Obama defeated Republican John McCain 15-6. Independent Ralph Nader was also on the ballot, but received no votes.
The first voter, following a tradition established in 1948, was picked ahead of the midnight voting and the rest of the town's registered voters followed suit in Tuesday's first minutes.
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