Editing Franklin County, Missouri (section)

====2008 Missouri Presidential primary====
;Republican

[[U.S. Senator]] [[John McCain]] (R-[[Arizona]]) won Franklin County with 35.68 percent of the vote. Former [[Governor of Massachusetts|Governor]] [[Mitt Romney]] (R-[[Massachusetts]]) came in a close second place with 30.51 percent while former [[Governor of Arkansas|Governor]] [[Mike Huckabee]] (R-[[Arkansas]]) finished third with 27.70 percent. [[Libertarianism|Libertarian]]-leaning [[U.S. Representative]] [[Ron Paul]] (R-[[Texas]]) finished a distant fourth with 4.07 percent.

;Democratic

Then-[[U.S. Senator]] [[Hillary Clinton]] (D-[[New York (state)|New York]]) carried Franklin County with 55.83 percent of the vote. Then-[[U.S. Senator]] [[Barack Obama]] (D-[[Illinois]]) received 40.28 percent of the vote from Franklin County Democrats, one of his more impressive showings in a predominantly rural albeit exurban county. Although he withdrew from the race, former [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Edwards]] (D-[[North Carolina]]) still received 2.96 percent of the vote in Franklin County.
* Despite being a strongly Republican county, Hillary Rodham Clinton received more votes, a total of 7,177, than any candidate from either party in Franklin County during the 2008 presidential primary. Barack Obama received 5,179 in the Missouri Democratic Primary. Both Democratic candidates each received more votes than John McCain in the Republican Primary in Franklin County, who received 4,032 votes.
'''COVID-19 controversy'''

During the 2020 [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Angie Hittson, the director of the Franklin County [[Public health|Public Health Department]] described being driven to resign from her position by residents who made "daily verbal assaults, threats of violence, and even death threats" against her and her family due to the public-health orders made in response to the pandemic.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 23, 2021 |title='I just can't take it': Franklin County health director resigns after verbal assaults, death threats |url=https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/franklin-county-health-director-resigns-verbal-assaults-death-threats/63-0c022fdc-bde1-4d87-9c51-c221b3a8e49d |access-date=November 20, 2022 |website=ksdk.com |language=en-US}}</ref> {{clear}}