sentences:  No Democratic presidential candidate has carried Mitchell County since Samuel J. Tilden in 1876.At this time Mitchell included Avery County, detached from it in 1911, and even more Republican.However, since Tilden's win every Republican candidate has obtained at least sixty percent of the county's vote, with the solitary exception of the 1912 election when the party was divided between the two candidacies of William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt, the latter of whom carried the county.