General News: Local Voters Favor McCain By Narrow Margin
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| Town councilwoman Mary Beth Greene Krafft tallies the votes. |
November 05, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may have been swept into the country’s highest office by large numbers across the nation, but in Cornwall, voters on Tuesday gave his opponent, Republican John McCain, a narrow margin of victory.
In unofficial vote results, which do not include 300 absentee ballots, McCain received 3,168 votes while Democratic candidate Barack Obama received 3,131 votes in Cornwall. That translates into a margin of 50.3% to 49.7%. Across Orange County, Obama received 50.01% to McCain’s 48.8%.
In the presidential race, the candidates of smaller parties also garnered a few votes locally. Leading the group was Populist Party candidate Ralph Nader received 40 votes, Libertarian Party candidate Bob Barr received nine votes, Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney received seven votes and Socialist Workers Party candidate and Party of Socialism & Liberation candidate Gloria LaRiva each received one vote.
Broken down into areas, in the town of Cornwall, the margin of victory for McCain was 2,067 to 1,961, while in Cornwall-on-Hudson, Obama won by an unofficial tally of 870 to 799. In Mountainville, candidate McCain squeaked by with a narrow margin, getting 302 votes to Obama’s 300 votes.
Locally, a majority of voters cast their ballots to re-elect first-term U.S. Congressman John Hall, a Democrat, giving him 2,980 votes while his opponent, Republican challenger Kieran Michael Lalor received 2,399 votes.
In the race for the 96th New York State Assembly seat, former Cornwall supervisor Richard Randazzo picked up 200 votes more than incumbent Republican Assemblywoman Nancy Calhoun locally, but the pattern didn’t hold across the district. Assemblywoman Calhoun won re-election by a final unofficial tally of 24,570 to 22,428. In Cornwall, Randazzo got 3,056 votes to Calhoun’s 2,858 votes.
State senator Bill Larkin, a Republican from Cornwall-on-Hudson, easily won re-election to a 10th two-year term in Albany, defeating his opponent Lawrence Delarose by a margin of 53,044 to 30, 759. In Cornwall, Larkin received an overwhelming 3,936 votes to Delarose’s 700.
Town clerk Elaine Schneer noted that voting went smoothly, considering what she called a tremendous voter turnout this year. “Presidential elections are always busy,” she said following the vote tally at town hall. “But this one was more than normal.”
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my math says there were 39 votes difference on the Presidential race. Certainly small enough that the 300 absentee ballots could affect the difference.
When will the absentee ballots be counted????
posted by Emily Thomas on 11/05/08 at 2:35 PM
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