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County sides with McCain, Carney
BY ROBERT L. BAKER
Wyoming County Press Examiner
Although the county cast most of its vote for Republican presidential candidate John McCain, the eventual winner, Barack Obama made history by garnering more votes than any Democrat ever before seeking the office.
McCain carried the county by just under 1,000 votes, 6.943-5,974.
With more than 13,300 votes cast after absentees and provisional votes were factored in, roughly 69.2 percent of the voters went to the polls in the county on Tuesday, Nov. 4.
In a county with an electorate that is roughly 54 percent Republican, McCain garnered 52.4 percent of the vote to Obama’s 45 percent.
Although Republicans carried the day in nearly every race cross the county, in the hotly contested race for Tenth Congressional District, the incumbent Democrat, Chris Carney won with 58.1 percent of the county’s vote to Republican challenger Chris Hackett’s 41.6 percent.
It was the first time in more than 75 years that a Democrat had attracted a majority of voters in the county for a congressional race.
Even when Tunkhannock’s Elmer Dietrich, a Democrat, won a seat in Congress in 1934, he lost the county by 7,000 votes.
Carney was jubilant on election night and said he was just happy to be returned to Congress.
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