Editing Josephine County, Oregon (section)

==Politics==
Josephine County has been among the most consistently Republican counties in Oregon with regard to presidential elections. In 1964, it was along with [[Malheur County, Oregon|Malheur County]] one of two Oregon counties to give a majority to [[Barry Goldwater]].<ref>[http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1964&fips=41&f=1&off=0&elect=0 David Leip Presidential Election Atlas]</ref> This is the county in Oregon to have gone the longest without voting for a Democrat in a presidential election; the last Democratic candidate to win the county was [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in 1936,<ref>[http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1936.htm Geographie Electorale]</ref> and the solitary Democrat since [[1900 United States presidential election|1900]] to win an absolute majority was Roosevelt in 1932 (though, in 1916, the county was won by [[Charles Evans Hughes]] by just four votes). Prior to the 1890s, Josephine was a generally Democratic county as the Rogue Valley and adjacent areas, like the [[San Joaquin Valley]] in California, had considerable anti-[[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] sympathies.<ref>Menendez, Albert J.; ''The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004'', pp. 284-286 {{ISBN|0786422173}}</ref>

As of 2024, Josephine County lies within [[Oregon's 2nd congressional district]], which is represented by the Republican Congressman [[Cliff Bentz]]. In the [[Oregon House of Representatives]], Josephine County is split between two districts. A portion in the northeast is in the 4th District (extending into [[Douglas County, Oregon|Douglas]] and [[Jackson County, Oregon|Jackson]] counties), represented by Republican [[Christine Goodwin (politician)|Christine Goodwin]]. The majority of Josephine County, including the core of Grants Pass, lies within the 3rd District represented by Republican [[Dwayne Yunker]]. The whole of Josephine County is within Oregon's 2nd Senate District, represented by Republican [[Art Robinson]].

In 2004 Democrat [[Dennis Kucinich]] spoke publicly while campaigning in Josephine County, making appearances in both Grants Pass and Cave Junction. Robert Kennedy made a campaign stop in Grants Pass in late May 1968 at the conclusion of a whistle stop campaign tour by train originating in Portland. Kennedy spoke to a crowd of several hundred in a supermarket parking lot on the site of the former Southern Pacific passenger station which had been demolished some years previously just a week before [[assassination of Robert F. Kennedy|his assassination]] in California on June 5, 1968.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/ddFGwPrUokk Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20170202015804/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddFGwPrUokk Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Cite web |last=Oregon Collegiate Broadcast System |title=Oregon 1968 - RFK Campaign Train |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddFGwPrUokk |access-date=June 5, 2016 |website=Youtube |publisher=R.W. Rynerson}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Despite its conservative reputation, Josephine County voters rejected a secessionist proposal to join the [[Greater Idaho]] coalition in May of 2022, defeating it on a vote of 51.3% in opposition to 48.7% in support. This came despite the fact that, in [[2020 United States presidential election in Oregon|2020]], Donald Trump won 61.48% of the county's votes to 35.73% for Joe Biden.

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{{PresRow|1916|Republican|1,660|1,656|277|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1912|Progressive|305|702|1,223|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|967|732|338|Oregon}}
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