Obama wins! (In Guam)

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The first returns of the 2012 presidential election are in... sort of*.

Guam returned its presidential tally Tuesday afternoon, its citizens participating in a non-binding straw poll for president.

The tally?

Barack Obama--23,067 (72.39 percent)
Mitt Romney--8,443 (26.49 percent)
Gary Johnson--357 (1.12 percent)

Obama's tally, according to Ballot Access News, is an increase over his 62 percent of Guam's vote four years ago against John McCain.

Guam, the tiny island, more than 6,000 miles west from California in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is a territory of the United States. Its residents are U.S. citizens, but do not have congressional representatives, nor do their votes count in the presidential election.

R. Todd Thompson, of the NPR member station KPRG in Guam, told Miami TV station WLRN that Guam has a history of picking election winners.

*While residents of Dixville-Notch, New Hampshire are the first to cast votes, traditionally, opening their polls at midnight on election day, Guam is the first full territory to complete all voting and return results.