 Like the nearby counties of Johnson, Massac and Pope, it managed to remain loyal to William Howard Taft during the 1912 election when the Republican Party was mortally divided.Hardin County would next be carried by a Democratic Presidential candidate in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1932 landslide victory, and not after that until Lyndon Johnson in 1964.The county did trend Democratic in the following three decades, actually voting more Democratic than the nation at-large between 1972 and 1996.