Editing Niihau (section)

===Politics===
{{See also|Politics of Hawaii}}
The island of Ni{{okina}}ihau was considered as a possible location for the [[United Nations]] headquarters in 1944 by [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], who had visited Hawaii in 1934.{{sfn|Tabrah|1987|p=1}} Under [[Cordell Hull]], Roosevelt's [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]], the [[United States Department of State|State Department]] seriously studied the proposal.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Bemis |first=Samuel Flagg |author-link=Samuel Flagg Bemis |title=The Memoirs of Cordell Hull |journal=The Journal of Modern History |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=317–320 |publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]] |date=December 1949 |doi=10.1086/237294|s2cid=144530543 }}</ref>
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In 2004, President [[George W. Bush]] received all but one of the 40 votes cast on the island. The remaining vote was cast for [[Green Party (United States)|Green Party]] nominee [[David Cobb (activist)|David Cobb]]. Fifty-one registered voters did not cast ballots.<ref>[http://www.hawaii.gov/elections/results/2004/general/precinct/16-09.pdf Hawaii 2004 election results for precinct 16-09]. Hawaii.gov. Retrieved April 21, 2006.</ref> In 2006, [[Dan Akaka]] received 60% of votes in the 2006 Senate election to [[Cynthia Thielen]]'s 36%.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://elections.hawaii.gov/election-results/|title=General Election 2006 – State of Hawaii – Statewide Final Summary Report|date=November 7, 2006|access-date=June 1, 2018}}</ref> In 2008, Ni{{okina}}ihau's precinct was one of only three of Hawai{{okina}}i's 538 precincts to support [[John McCain]] over [[Barack Obama]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hawaii.gov/elections/results/2008/general/files/histatewidedetail.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://hawaii.gov/elections/results/2008/general/files/histatewidedetail.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=Office of Elections}}</ref>