Fred Smith has won another straw poll.

The Republican gubernatorial candidate was the top vote-getter at the Guilford County Lincoln Day Dinner on Saturday.

He picked up 62 votes, while Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory got 35, former Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr got 14 and Salisbury attorney Bill Graham got two.

Smith has also won straw polls in at least eight counties — Buncombe, Wake, Henderson, Catawba, Rutherford, Cleveland, McDowell and Graham — as well as at the state party's Hall of Fame dinner in Cary.

Orr, meantime, won the Swain County Lincoln-Reagan Day event, where he was keynote speaker.

Update: Smith also won straw polls at the Wayne County and Carteret County conventions. 

Proposals to establish a transfer tax on real estate sales were shot down by voters in several North Carolina counties today.

Voters in Graham, Hoke, Gates, Washington, Davie and Union counties voted down the tax, according to unofficial totals.

Update: With 16 of 19 precincts reporting in Chatham County, 6,850 people voted against the transfer tax referendum and 3,133 voted for it, according to unofficial totals.