Editing Grundy County, Tennessee (section)

==Politics==
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|5,334|948|46|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|4,802|988|65|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|3,636|999|128|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|2,516|1,643|78|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|2,563|1,971|98|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|2,107|2,789|33|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|1,553|2,970|73|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|1,094|2,596|357|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|1,004|2,997|385|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|1,429|2,415|13|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|1,396|2,596|23|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|1,139|2,837|43|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|850|2,850|21|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|1,364|1,005|134|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1968|American Independent|618|1,307|1,642|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|686|2,775|0|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|786|2,143|31|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|918|2,076|30|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|709|2,583|10|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|431|2,009|135|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|406|1,462|19|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|298|1,749|9|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|238|1,488|4|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|198|978|15|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|380|608|4|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|173|394|197|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|447|745|163|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|319|736|103|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|122|529|208|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1908|Democratic|261|576|144|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1904|Democratic|264|554|139|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|357|852|13|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|286|997|29|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1892|Democratic|236|779|44|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1888|Democratic|216|901|34|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1884|Democratic|188|585|0|Tennessee}}
{{PresFoot|1880|Democratic|63|461|0|Tennessee}}

As part of [[Middle Tennessee]], Grundy County has historically been one of the strongest [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] counties in the state. It voted Democratic in every presidential election from 1880 to 2004, except for in 1968 (when segregationist [[George Wallace]] won the county), and 1972 when many traditional Democratic voters around the nation voted for incumbent Republican [[Richard Nixon]]. However, like most of the rural south, Grundy County has shifted towards the Republican Party in recent years, but was one of the last counties in Tennessee to make the switch to the party.<ref>Cohn, Nate; [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/upshot/southern-whites-loyalty-to-gop-nearing-that-of-blacks-to-democrats.html ‘Demographic Shift: Southern Whites’ Loyalty to G.O.P. Nearing That of Blacks to Democrats’], ''[[New York Times]]'', April 24, 2014</ref> The last Democratic presidential candidate to win Grundy County was [[John Kerry]] in [[2004 United States presidential election in Tennessee|2004]], who won 18 out of Tennessee's 95 counties, whereas [[Al Gore]] won 36 in [[2000 United States presidential election in Tennessee|2000]]. Grundy County was also won by Democratic U.S. senate candidates [[Bob Clement]] in [[2002 United States Senate election in Tennessee|2002]] and [[Harold Ford Jr.]] in [[2006 United States Senate election in Tennessee|2006]], both of whom lost. Republican presidential nominee [[John McCain]] won the county by nearly 13% in 2008, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to win Grundy County since Nixon won it 36 years earlier, and by [[2016 United States presidential election in Tennessee|2016]], Grundy County had taken a major shift toward the GOP, when Republican [[Donald Trump]] received 76% of the vote, a figure closer to what is usually seen in historically Republican [[East Tennessee]] counties. He would get even higher percentages of the vote in both 2020 and 2024, with both [[Joe Biden]] and [[Kamala Harris]] not even cracking 20% of Grundy's vote, and Harris being the first Democrat to not even break 15% in the county's history.