 In 2012, Republican Mitt Romney received 60,083 votes (60.9%), to 37,216 (37.7%) votes for incumbent Barack Obama.Obama won the state by nearly 10 point, however.In 2008, Republican John McCain received 55,592 votes (55.6% of the county's vote) to 42,349 (42.4%) for Democrat Barack Obama, even as Obama carried the state by a double-digit margin.