If Powhatan County poll workers were expecting an onslaught of voters at the polls Nov. 4, they probably weren’t disappointed.

Over 14,000 residents braved soggy weather conditions to cast their ballots.

Poe said she thought Powhatan’s success handling the crowds mirrored the lack of trouble across the state.

Despite pre-Election Day predictions that poll workers would be overrun and chaos would ensue, Poe said the few small glitches they faced were “nothing we couldn’t handle.”

“I think things went exceptionally well,” she said. “I’ve heard nothing but good things from residents about the job our poll workers did.”

Despite the fact that the Commonwealth went for Barrack Obama in ‘08, Powhatan didn’t stray from tradition. While the Democratic candidate received 4,233 votes from county residents, Republican John McCain earned 10,084. Need any more proof that Powhatan leans right? Poe said Monday that the county was one of only three in the entire state to see congressional candidate Jim Gilmore take more votes than Mark Warner.

Poe said, for her part, she was not suprised that the county had held on to its Republican-friendly status.

After all, in the last presidential election, Powhatan had been the been most Republican county in the entire state.