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Article: New Hampshire and beyond.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 23, 1984
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New Hampshire and Beyond
I. With a Sharp Stick
ERNEST HOLLINGS led in the earliest results--the tally of the hamlet of Dixville Notch, which votes at one minute after midnight election morning. The South Carolinian, who had gone to ride the local ski lift in his jogging suit, was rewarded with three Democratic votes and five Republican write-ins. But by evening it was clear that Gary Hart, after a distant but surprising second in Iowa, had decisively upset Fritz Mondale. New Hampshire voters, who have been boosting dark horses since Estes Kefauver, gave one more front-runner a disrespectful poke in the eye.
Five days before the voting, the ...