Macon County Primary Results

This is also cross-posted at my local and state issue blog.

Here is how Macon County voted yesterday, with the winner of the race overall for the state or district in bold:

Local Race First...

COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICT III

(GOP)

53.28% 1,363 Jimmy Goodman
46.72% 1,195 Charlie Leatherman

Now, the other stuff, of which Macon County was only a part of the total:

PRESIDENT

(DEM)

66.57% 3,533 Hillary Clinton
30.47% 1,617 Barack Obama

(GOP)

71.88% 1,943 John McCain
14.76% 399 Mike Huckabee
08.66% 234 Ron Paul
03.22% 87 No Preference

US SENATE

(DEM)

44.17% 1,826 Kay Hagan
33.12% 1,369 Jim Neal

(GOP)

89.56% 2,384 Elizabeth Dole
10.44% 278 Pete Di Lauro

US CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 11

(GOP)

43.29% 1,038 Carl Mumpower
38.53% 924 Spence Campbell
18.18% 436 John Armor

GOVERNOR

(DEM)

49.99% 2,326 Bev Perdue
47.00% 2,278 Richard Moore

(GOP)

50.88% 1,272 Fred Smith
18.96% 474 Bill Graham
14.92% 373 Pat McCrory
11.92% 298 Bob Orr
03.32% 83 Elbie Powers

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

(DEM)

41.42% 1,788 Walter Dalton
33.73% 1,456 Pat Smathers

(GOP)

52.17% 1,176 Bob Pittenger
24.22% 546 Jim Snyder
16.19% 365 Tim Cook
07.41% 167 Greg Dority

NC STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 119

(DEM)

81.68% 896 Phil Haire
18.32% 201 Bruce Friedman

Commentary

MACON COMMISSION RACE

In the local county commission race, I think the thing that killed Leatherman was his support for building moratoriums, height restrictions, and the HUGE Bond Referendum that threatened to put an onerous burden of debt on future generations of Macon county. That Bond Referendum, and certain Commissioner attitudes about that will be an issue in the General Election locally.

US PRESIDENTIAL RACE

I cannot help but notice that there was a significant protest vote yesterday. 26% voted AGAINST the presumptive nominee. The Ron Paul Supporters might have been able to make something out of that if they had used honey instead of vinegar in their campaign efforts.

US CONGRESSIONAL RACE

The Mumpower Campaign ran a very efficient operation. I thought that they had shot themselves in the foot on FISA, my major policy disagreement with the candidate.

STATS, STATS, AND MORE STATS

The North Carolina State Board of Elections finally joined the Internet Age with their very prompt posting of results. This, of course, was due to the state being in the National Spotlight because of the Democrat Presidential Contest. I just hope they continue providing this level of statistics...which promises to keep me very busy over the next few weeks as I digest the information.