Editing Asotin County, Washington (section)

==Politics==
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{{PresHead|place=Asotin County, Washington|whig=no|source1=<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leip |first=David |title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections |url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS |access-date=April 5, 2018 |website=uselectionatlas.org}}</ref>|source2=<ref>The leading "other" candidate, [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]], received 513 votes, while Socialist candidate [[Eugene V. Debs|Eugene Debs]] received 133 votes, [[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]] candidate [[Eugene W. Chafin|Eugene Chafin]] received 66 votes, and [[Socialist Labor Party of America|Socialist Labor]] candidate [[Arthur Reimer]] received 3 votes.</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|1,367|1,888|15|Washington}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|1,483|2,107|21|Washington}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|916|2,261|266|Washington}}
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{{PresRow|1908|Republican|648|365|74|Washington}}
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{{PresRow|1900|Republican|398|328|34|Washington}}
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Generally, Asotin County is considered a staunchly Republican area, although it has been known to vote for Democrats, especially on the state level. Currently the county is represented at the county commission level by two Republicans and one Independent.

In the [[2004 United States presidential election|2004 Presidential election]] slightly over 60 percent of the vote went to [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[George W. Bush]]. It was one of 11 of Washington's 39 counties where Bush received a lower percentage of the vote in 2004 than in [[2000 United States presidential election|2000]]. Conversely, even though nearly 60 percent of voters selected the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] governor [[Gary Locke (politician)|Gary Locke]] in 2000, in 2004 the Democratic gubernatorial nominee [[Christine Gregoire]] received only 41 percent of the vote.

In 2004, 27% of presidential votes were cast from incorporated [[Clarkston, Washington|Clarkston]], while 61% was from unincorporated suburbs of Clarkston (34% from [[Clarkston Heights, Washington|Clarkston Heights]], 12% from [[West Clarkston, Washington|West Clarkston]], 9% from [[South Clarkston, Washington|South Clarkston]], and 6% from [[Swallows Nest, Washington|Swallows Nest]]). An additional 6% was cast from the incorporated city of [[Asotin, Washington|Asotin]], with rural areas around Asotin accounting for 4% of the vote and areas around the unincorporated community of [[Anatone, Washington|Anatone]] making up 2% of the vote.

By and large, the most competitive areas are Clarkston and its suburbs. Democratic presidential nominee [[John Kerry]] won two precincts in 2004, one each in Clarkston and West Clarkston. Bush received 54 percent of the vote in West Clarkston, 55 in Clarkston, and 57 percent in South Clarkston. However, he received larger victories of 64 percent in Clarkston Heights and 67 percent in Swallows Nest. Areas around both Asotin and Anatone delivered 2-to-1 victories, with the lone exception of one of the two incorporated Asotin precincts.