Editing Moffat County, Colorado (section)

==Politics==
Moffat is a Republican county in presidential elections. No Democratic presidential candidate has carried Moffat County since Lyndon Johnson's 1964 landslide, and indeed no Democrat post-1964 has obtained even 40 percent of the county's vote. Moffat was one of 15 counties (two in Colorado) to give a plurality to [[Ross Perot]] in the 1992 election, but every other Republican candidate since 1968 has obtained an absolute majority in Moffat County.

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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|5,358|1,167|146|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|5,670|1,203|153|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|5,305|874|346|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|4,695|1,330|143|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|4,135|1,582|154|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|4,247|1,355|123|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|3,840|1,223|274|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|2,466|1,635|735|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1992|Independent|1,809|1,386|1,900|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|2,757|1,634|128|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|3,630|1,228|123|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|3,344|1,079|502|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|2,099|1,451|220|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|1,928|591|329|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|1,785|765|325|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|1,438|1,657|8|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|1,754|1,200|3|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|1,762|797|2|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|1,922|808|11|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|1,261|1,101|29|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|1,445|923|6|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|1,556|1,056|15|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|954|1,090|220|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|880|1,388|139|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|1,346|710|29|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|1,009|647|334|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|1,294|589|95|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|512|740|37|Colorado}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|294|409|235|Colorado}}

In gubernatorial elections, Moffat County has also generally been Republican, but was nonetheless carried by Democrat [[Roy Romer]] by a narrow margin in 1990<ref>Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; [http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1990&fips=8&f=1&off=5&elect=0 1990 Gubernatorial General Election Results – Colorado]</ref> – when he carried all but four counties statewide – by [[Dick Lamm]] in 1982<ref>Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; [http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1982&fips=8&f=1&off=5&elect=0 1982 Gubernatorial General Election Results – Colorado]</ref> and by Constitution Party candidate [[Tom Tancredo]] in 2010.<ref>Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; [http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=2010&fips=8&f=1&off=5&elect=0 2010 Gubernatorial General Election Results – Colorado]</ref> In senatorial elections, the Republican candidate has consistently garnered over 60 percent of Moffat County voters since future party-switcher [[Ben Nighthorse Campbell]] won the county for the Democratic Party in 1992.<ref>Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; [http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1992&fips=8&f=0&off=3&elect=0&class=3 1992 Senatorial General Election Results – Colorado]</ref>
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