Editing Baker County, Georgia (section)

==Politics==
Like most [[Deep South]] counties, Baker County is historically Democratic. Starting in 1964, the county began to see a realignment, with [[Barry Goldwater]] and [[Richard Nixon]] carrying it in 1964 and 1972, and American Independent candidate George Wallace winning the county in 1968 as a third-party candidate. In 1956, [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]] received over 96 percent of the county's vote.<ref>[http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1956&f=1&off=0&elect=0 David Leip's Presidential Atlas: 1956 statistics]</ref> The county voted Democratic consistently from 1976 until 2012, but by closer margins than in 1956, and the county shifted more to the right throughout the early 2000s. In 2008 [[Barack Obama]] won with just 50.1 percent to [[John McCain]]'s 49.1 percent,<ref>[http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html?scp=1&sq=%22election%20map&st=cse The New York Times Electoral Map (Zoom in on Georgia)]</ref> while [[Donald Trump]] won the county by almost ten percent in 2016, despite declining on [[Mitt Romney]]’s performance statewide. [[Brian Kemp]] repeated this feat by double digits in [[2018 Georgia gubernatorial election|the 2018 gubernatorial race]], and in 2020, Trump won Baker County by nearly sixteen percentage points.<ref>{{citation |url= https://ballotpedia.org/Pivot_Counties_in_Georgia |title= Pivot Counties in Georgia |work= [[ballotpedia.org]] |access-date= 2024-09-23 }}</ref>

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