Editing Hinsdale County, Colorado (section)

==Politics==
Republican presidential nominees have carried Hinsdale County since [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] defeated [[Alf Landon]] by eight votes in 1936. Along with [[Elbert County, Colorado|Elbert County]] and [[Washington County, Colorado|Washington County]] it was one of three Colorado counties to vote for [[Barry Goldwater]] over [[Lyndon Johnson]] in 1964. In 2020, Joe Biden received the highest vote share for a Democrat since Johnson, and became the third Democrat since 1940 to breach 40% of the vote.

The last Democrat to carry Hinsdale County in a statewide election was [[John Hickenlooper]] in the [[Colorado gubernatorial election, 2010|2010 gubernatorial contest]],<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> and the only other case since at least 1980 have been Democratic senator [[Ben Nighthorse Campbell|Ben “Nighthorse” Campbell]], who was later to shift to the Republican Party, in 1992, alongside popular Governor [[Roy Romer]], who carried all but three counties statewide, 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>

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