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November 20, 2008 - 1:00pm
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McCain squeaks out Garfield County win
By Jeremy Pelzer, PolitickerCO.com ReporterAfter days of anticipation, John McCain is the winner of the 2008 presidential election -- in Garfield County.
With 243 provisional ballots counted, the Republican U.S. senator from Arizona beat Democrat (and President-elect) Barack Obama by two votes in the Western Slope county, 11,359-11,357, according to the Grand Junction Sentinel.
Before the provisional ballots were counted, McCain and Obama had been exactly tied with 11,223 votes apiece in the county.
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