This just in - Obama landslide in "real America"

The little hamlets of Dixville Notch and Harts Location, New Hampshire have done the stereotypical New England flip-off of bed and comfort to vote at midnight, and the results are in.

Obama wins, without a single black vote.

There's a small part, a VERY small part of me who wants to move straight-away to one of those towns just to be a part of such civic-mindedness. But the rest of me wonders just how devoted I would be to crunching through the frost at oh-dark-thirty to vote in what must be some sort of conscripted duty. Do folks have to sign an understanding with the local constabulary that every four years, if registered to vote, for primary and general elections, they must cast a ballot at midnight or face.... what? Tar and feathers? Ironing everyone's shirts?

BigFoot, on the other hand, doesn't want to live in Dixville Notch because he thinks the name is far too phallic.

Either way, so goes small-town "real America", so goes the Nation. One can hope.

Rest in peace, and Goddess bless, Toot.