Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Election overview: Clinton wins Catawba County

From Staff Reports

Hillary Clinton defied the statewide trend in Catawba County in Tuesday’s primary and outpolled Barack Obama.
With all 40 precincts reporting, her vote total in the Democratic presidential primary was 9,746 to Obama’s 7,251. Obama, however, swept the state’s nominating votes.
John McCain and Elizabeth Dole handily won the support of Catawba County voters as expected in Tuesday’s primary.
McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee for president, received 10,377 votes. His nearest challenger, Mike Huckabee, got 1,843 votes.
Dole, running against a virtual unknown for U.S. Senate, got 12,577 votes in Catawba County.
She will face Democrat Kay Hagen, a runaway winner, in the November election.
Catawba County Republican voters also favored Pat McCrory for governor, Robert Pittinger for lieutenant governor, Richard Morgan for superintendent of public instruction, Jim Wynn and Sam Ervin IV for the N.C. Court of Appeals, and Gary Dellinger for N.C. District Court.
Democrats in Catawba County went for Beverly Perdue for governor, Walter Dalton for lieutenant governor, Beth Wood for state auditor, David Smith for commissioner of insurance, Mary Fant Donnan for commissioner of labor, June St. Clair Atkinson for superintendent of public instruction, and Janet Cowell for state treasurer.