Editing Douglas County, Nevada (section)

==Politics==
Historically Douglas was the most Republican county in Nevada, a state that tended to lean Democratic between the 1890s and 1950s. The last Democrat to carry the county was [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in 1936 during his 48-state landslide over [[Alf Landon]], and even then, he carried Douglas by 15 percent less than his statewide margin. It was the only Nevada county won by Charles Evans Hughes in 1916, and one of only two to vote for Progressive [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|“Bull Moose”]] ex-President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] in 1912. It was also one of only two Nevada counties that voted for incumbent President [[Benjamin Harrison]] over insurgent Populist [[James B. Weaver]] in 1892 when the latter carried the state by over 40 percentage points. Even when the county did vote Democratic in 1896 and 1900, it was by much smaller margins than the rest of silver-mining Nevada.<ref>Robinson, Edgar Eugene; ''The Presidential Vote; 1896–1932'' (second edition); pp. 268–270 Published 1947 by Stanford University Press</ref>

The county remains a Republican stronghold, although it now is not quite as heavily Republican as some other rural counties in the state. Apart from FDR's two victories, only two Democrats since 1920 — [[Lyndon Johnson]] in 1964 and [[Barack Obama]] in 2008 — have won even 40 percent of the county's vote. Despite the county's strong Republican bent, residents tend to be somewhat moderate on social issues, with a small majority of county residents voting to legalize gay marriage in [[2020 Nevada Question 2|2020.]]

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