New Hampshire: The Votes Are In!

You know you’re in the political season when you flip on the TV at five minutes after midnight and they are announcing the vote from Dixville Notch, NH, which is always the first votes counted in the first Presidential primary every four years.

This year, all 6 votes went for Nikki Haley, which only goes to show you how what happens in Dixville Notch won’t at all represent what will happen when the votes are counted in the rest of New Hampshire today.

So, then you ask yourself this: Where is this place called Dixville Notch which seems to be an island of sanity in the midst of the GOP craziness surrounding Donald Trump?

The town of Dixville Notch is actually the lobby of what used to be the Balsams Hotel, one of those grand, old mountain retreats where wealthy and well-placed New Yorkers used to go to escape the city’s Summer heat. When I went to the Balsams about ten years ago just before it shut down, they still had a dress code for the dining room, not just for dinner, but for lunch. No wonder the hotel shut down.

But what made the Balsams a destination was its remarkable Panorama golf course — truly Donald Ross’ greatest masterpiece — which I had the good fortune to play before it also was shut down along with the hotel.