Clinton, McCain win locally
Alexander votes differ from rest of North Carolina

Though Senator Hillary Clinton won Alexander County with 3,356 votes (73.0 percent) compared to Sen. Barack Obama’s 1090 votes (23.7 percent), Clinton lost the nomination statewide, according to unofficial results.

Overall in N.C., Obama had 897,171votes (56.3%) with Clinton taking 660,754 votes (41.47%).

In the GOP race, the top two vote-getters in Alexander were John McCain, with 2,157 votes and 75.1% (statewide 383,405 votes and 73.99%), and Mike Huckabee, having 446 votes and 15.5% (statewide 63,063 votes or 12.17%) though the latter had announced he dropped out of the race.