Via CNN: First votes counted in New Hampshire primary

Voters in two New Hampshire hamlets cast their ballots Tuesday just after midnight in the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary, hours before the rest of the state’s polling places open.

The first ballots were cast in Dixville Notch, a hamlet of about 75 near the Canadian border.

People there favored Sen. John McCain in the Republican primary — he got four votes — and Sen. Barack Obama in the Democratic contest, who won seven votes.

Obama and McCain also won in midnight voting in Hart’s Location, population 42. The two senators hope to see those results duplicated statewide by the time all the votes are cast.

Well, there you go: it’s McCain and Obama!

And I loves me some voting, but I think that I would rather sleep then vote.

The hamlet test aside, CNN’s polls do indicate a McCain lead going into today’s contest:

a CNN/WMUR poll of likely voters released Monday night showed McCain leading Romney by a margin of 31 to 26 percentage points.

If McCain does win (which I think is likely), it will thrill Romney’s accountants to no end:

Romney has poured $8 million into television ads in the Granite State, outspending McCain 2-to-1, according to figures from TNS Media Intelligence/CMAG, CNN’s consultant on television campaign advertising.

Ah well, money isn’t everything (at least not when you are a multi-millionaire, I guess).

CNN’s pollsters also find Obama in the lead going into today:

Monday’s poll found Obama riding a 9-point lead over Clinton, 39 percent to 30 percent. Edwards, who edged out Clinton for second place in Iowa, ran third with 16 percent.

Although how one rides polling figures is a stumper.