I'm confused why Prisoner Dude won Hardy County. It had a greater swing toward Obama in '08 than the nation as a whole. Although it was also John Edwards's best county in the primary (16%) and among Obama's worst (43rd of 55).
That area in the northeast of the state, which is traditionally Republican and agricultural, has a small but growing population of transplants from the DC area who are more affluent than the local population. The combination of numbers you cite suggests that some of them voted for Obama but are not participating in Democratic primaries, perhaps due to the state's closed primaries.
