First votes are in, and the winners are . . .
Reading about one's failings in the daily papers is one of the privileges of high office in this free country of ours. First votes are in, and the winners are . . . They filled out their ballots and then stood in line, waiting for Monday to turn into Tuesday. An official counter tallied the votes, added them to the votes of five absentee voters, and the primary had begun. Then, as reporters and photographers from around the globe recorded the moment for history, Steve Barba, a managing partner of the hotel, recording the results in red marker.