Editing Crawford County, Missouri (section)

====2008 Missouri presidential primary====
In the 2008 Missouri Presidential Primary, voters in Crawford County from both political parties supported candidates who finished in second place in the state at large and nationally.

;Republican
Former [[Governor of Arkansas|Governor]] [[Mike Huckabee]] (R-[[Arkansas]]) won Crawford County by just one vote with 32.71 percent of the vote. [[U.S. Senator]] [[John McCain]] (R-[[Arizona]]) finished in second place in Crawford County with 32.66 percent. Former [[Governor of Massachusetts|Governor]] [[Mitt Romney]] (R-[[Massachusetts]]) came in third place, receiving 27.76 percent of the vote while [[Libertarianism|libertarian]]-leaning [[U.S. Representative]] [[Ron Paul]] (R-[[Texas]]) finished fourth with 5.15 percent.

;Democratic
Then-[[U.S. Senator]] [[Hillary Clinton]] (D-[[New York (state)|New York]]) won a decisive victory in Crawford County with 66.36 percent of the vote. Then-[[U.S. Senator]] [[Barack Obama]] (D-[[Illinois]]) received 30.07 percent of the vote from Crawford County Democrats. Although he withdrew from the race, former [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Edwards]] (D-[[North Carolina]]) still received 2.61 percent of the vote in Crawford County.

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