They have just closed the polls here. Like 30 seconds to a minute. Reporter right. Were looking right now. Just closed the polls, going back to count them. Theres only nine votes, don, so cant take that long. Certainly hope it wont take that long and on this white board behind me they will record the results. Granted, this is very symbolic in many ways, part of the political lore that we have in the nights, dates back to 1906 when tom tillisons father started the tradition. Do it not only in the primary but the general election. Not only happening here but in two other towns, millsville as well as Harts Location here in New Hampshire. Don, of course, the polls really open tomorrow morning in the more populace areas down in the south as we wait to see who will come out of New Hampshire victorious on the republican side as well as the democratic side. So lets just wait a few moments and they will come back here, don. Okay, mark, dont go anywhere. Well continue on in here and add you to the conversation. I want to bring ryan and if you want to add something, feel free to jump in. They have had a pretty good results . Since 1968, not necessarily predicted the republican who will win the republican primary in New Hampshire but Dixville Notch who has predicted who the ultimate nominee is. Right. Not bad, since 1968. I think there was a tie in 1980 between reagan and bush and reagan went on to win the nomination, but its more of a celebration of New Hampshire and New Hampshire being first in the nation and taking voting so serious. The democrats in 2008 was barack obama 7, john edwards 2 and Bill Richardson 1. Not a hillary vote, interesting. She won New Hampshire but obama won the nomination. If it was all like this we wouldnt have hanging chads, whatever. People got to decide. Here we go, don. Here we go. Well see the results, don. Let me step down here so we can get them for you. The results on the republican side, we have for donald j. Trump two. For john r. Kasich, we have three. Three kasich. All right, and that was all the republican votes. On the democratic side, we have four votes cast for Bernie Sanders. Four votes cast for Bernie Sanders and none for hillary. And none for hillary. Okay, thats it. There you have it. Lets take another look again. There you go, don, as you can see on the white board behind me only three candidates getting the votes, john kasich who came up here to Dixville Notch, who held a town meeting, about 60 people showed up from the surrounding communities gets three votes. We know hes been campaigning hard and a lot of talk over the weekend hes been surging throughout the state and well see where john kasich ends at the end of tomorrow night when we see all the votes across the state counted. Now, interestingly enough, Bernie Sanders, when we were driving up here, we saw a lot of Bernie Sanders signs along the road, did not see any Hillary Clinton signs and, of course, she got no votes, don. Back to you. Mark preston, what do you make of this, ryan lizza, trump 2, kasich 3 and sanders 4 and Hillary Clinton zero. One thing kasich actually reached out and asked for the votes so that always helps and then, you know, sanders is hes from vermont, the media markets up there probably cover sanders as a senator so hes well known in northern New Hampshire as he is in the rest of the side and not a surprise and the outsiders did well. Four votes, 42 for the two outsiders versus three for kasich. If you look at this, some people would say how much stock should we be putting in this little town . Very charming. Charming tra dishes and, you know, they have a pretty good record but not that much stock. Do you think that the clinton people are going oh, my gosh, were in trouble . No, i dont think so. Predicted the nominee a decent number of time on 68 on the republican side and you could flip a coin ten times and get heads but it doesnt mean a lot. More of a celebration of democracy in New Hampshire. Shows the people in New Hampshire take this very seriously and put on an event like this. We should tell everyone the first votes are n. Dixville notch and they are happening in several other times, marksville and Harts Location as well. The bulk of the voting in the southern towns and cities start tomorrow. Mark preston joins us now from Dixville Notch where the votes have been cast, trump 2, kasich 3 and sanders 4 and Hillary Clinton zero. Mr. Preston . Reporter whats interesting not only did john kasich come up here and hold a town meeting, he has been on the phone with the voters up here trying to get their support, and our own ashley keilo who is traveling with jeb bush reporting tonight that jesh bush during one of his rallies said he had been to every nook and cranny of the state except for Dixville Notch and made a few telephone calls and clearly that didnt work. A celebration of politics not only in New Hampshire but quite frankly across the country. A page out of a Norman Rockwell book. Its amazing up here how engaged people are, what they know about policy and what they want to hear from the candidates, so, don, again, first votes cast here, two other towns as well. Well have those results later, but really this is very interesting heading into tomorrow morning where i guess in just a few hours we are in the morning its going to be an interesting race to the finish here in New Hampshire. Do the voters there talk, the nine people, do they talk to the media and usually tell you why they voted the way they did . They love talking to the media. Theres no doubt about that. In fact, one gentleman who voted for john kasich told me, told me who he why he voted for kasich. He told meet story that he went up to john kasich and told the Ohio Governor. Listen, im interested in you, but i think you need to attack Hillary Clinton and john kasich at the time said im not going to do that. Its into the my style, not what im going to do and the gentleman wrote him off at that time. However, the more and more he saw the infighting on the republican side and the attacks by trump on Hillary Clinton, he started to come over to the john kasich side. John kasich has been making a big deal about the kind of compassionate conservatism that he is delivering. In fact, during the debate on saturday night he talked about not leaving anybody behind but using smart conservative solutions so smart conservative solutions sounds a lot like the John Mccain Campaign when he ran back here in 2000 and 2008. John kasich seems to be running the same playbook. In fact, one of his top strategists was a former mccain strategist. Don . Mark preston, do the folks there in Dixville Notch and the other two towns, do they know that people are going ryan, i should shay, pardon me. Do they know that people will be paying so much attention to them at 12 01 on, you know, primary morning . Yeah. You can tell that they are pretty media savvy. They have turned this into a celebration of the town. They study the policy and the candidates. One of the things i love about covering iowa and New Hampshire is Something Like this, right. These states, iowa and New Hampshire, the voters really do take things seriously. Had a voter on here tonight still struggling on whether to vote for sanders or Hillary Clinton. Folks in Dixville Notch, they put on a whole show to celebrate democracy and this is sort of the epit myome of what people love about New Hampshire that shows how seriously they take this. I found yore question fascinating. Going ask you if you did. Why arent you decided by now . I know. So much information. People are knocking on your doors and bursting through your television and on the radio. Maybe that makes it harder. Because youre overwhelmed with the information. In later states you dont get in a privilege, right. When there are ten states voting you dont have the candidates meeting you oneonone. The famous thing in New Hampshire you ask a vote, you know, who are you going to vote for, well, i dont know, ive only met hillary twice and bernie three tiles. That doesnt happen later on. Just tuning in, nine minutes ago the first votes were cast in the him ham primary up in a place called Dixville Notch and two other towns. Live in dixville, notch. Nine voters and well tell you the results. The results on the republican side. On the republican side donald trump two votes, first in the nation 2016, celebrating, going to cut into the cake in Dixville Notch. Dwrump two votes on the republican side and john kasich three votes so john kasich is the winner there. Big winner there. On the democratic side, the winner is Bernie Sanders. Bernie sanders four votes and Hillary Clinton zero votes and they are celebrating up in Dixville Notch, first in the nation to vote in a primary for who is going to be president , you know, come november 2016. Theres a little bit of a pr thing going on here, right . People are constantly saying why does New Hampshire go first, and this state likes to promote these kinds of things to make people aware that they take this seriously and, that you know mark, do you have results from one of the other towns, what do you have . Reporter we do. Don, we have results in from millsfield thats come in. Ted cruz received 9 votes and donald trump 3 votes and a number of other republican candidates received 1 vote. On the democratic side Hillary Clinton seefeld 2 and Bernie Sanders received 1. In total 21 votes. Don, if you can imagine this, talking about two locations where a total of 30 votes have been count, and to tell you here there must be 30 reporters in in room right now. Vry small room, who are recording all of these results. More reporters than people, right . Millsfield you said clinton got two votes and sanders 1 vote and cruz 9, trump 3, correct, mr. Preston . Snoop that is correct. That is correct. And so more all 21 votes. More reporters here than there are voters, thats for sure. They are very aware of whats happening at 12 01, you know, come primary day in those locations, and thats, you know, not entire reason, but part of the reason that they may be so engaged is because they note eyes of the country are on them. Right. No doubt, listen, we just came out of iowa thats another state thats very civicminded. A lot of criticism that iowa and New Hampshire are two states that have been so inflinksal in the process, and they would like to break it up and would like to see some. Bigger states such as california or florida or michigan have more of a role. This happens every four years where there seems to be a struggle and a fight over that, but what makes it really interesting in some ways essential for candidates for the summarily states is you can go into an iowa or New Hampshire and you can campaign and you can meet voters oneonone and quite frankly you can buy Television Ads in these states because they are not as expensive which allows the likes of rick santorum, if you remember, back in 2012 who won the iowa caucus. When you look at john kasich who doesnt have a whole lot of money. Up against the trump machine and up against the tens of millions of dollars that jeb bush has but yet he seems to be doing pretty well. Thats what makes the states really unique and these folks here, they know what they are talking about. They know policy and know their politics and quite frankly they want to know their candidates. They dont want to meet them once, don. Want to meet them once, twice, four, five times when they make a decision. Okay. I understand that john kasich is already tweeting about his victory in dixville, no. Lets put it up on the screen and ill give it to ryan and mark, whoever wants to respond to it. It says early momentum as john kasich wins gop vote in Dixville Notch. Lets keep it going, New Hampshire. What do you say and what do you make of that, ryan . His main strategist john weaver knows a thing or two about New Hampshire. Worked for john mccain and won New Hampshire against george w. Bush in 2000 hand know how to play the game and know how important Dixville Notch can be in terms of getting Media Attention and getting things rolling and, you know, this is a fun thing, right. This is not predictive. None. Other candidates are lose sleep or aides saying oh, my gosh, we lost Dixville Notch. Easy for you to say because youre not running. John kasich is this is like a harbinger, a prediction what have will happen tomorrow. 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Results coming in from the state of New Hampshire. Voters in had a little place called Dixville Notch and two other towns have cast their ballots in the countrys first ever president ial primary. Get ready. Here come the results. The first have come in from dixville, notch has nine registered voters and here are the numbers. I know its exciting. On the republican side. Three votes for john kasich and two for donald trump. Already complaining about that. Four votes to democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, and then in the town of millsfield, 21 votes were cast and ted cruz led among the republicans with nine votes and Hillary Clinton beat sanders 21 and at least now we have something to talk about for the next 15 hours. Well, the outcome in tuesdays primary will depend largely on the granite states latedeciding voters. Were joined by republican strategist john thomas and democratic strategist dave jakeson, i like to call them our two wise men. Great to have you with us tonight. Results coming in. Dixville notch, a win for john kasich, the only candidate that actually went to Dixville Notch. That will help. That will do it. Still a squeaker. He went there and beat trump by one. Got the three votes and claimed victory and whats it worth . Far too early right now. No kidding. Really . People pay me big dollars to tell them that but the truth is the the question we catch can trump be the comeback kid and can he win and win big in New Hampshire and a fourway scrum between the top other tier candidates, bush, kasich, rubio hopefully coming back from a debate. Thats what his team is hoping and christie, can he come back. Thats what well watch. Dave, your thoughts on the democratic side. Sanders getting four and no vote