 The county did turn strongly Republican due again to opposition to war involvement in 1940, and remained Republican-leaning for three decades.Between 1970 and 2008 Calhoun turned Democratic once more – George Bush senior in 1992 won a smaller proportion of the vote than Alf Landon in 1936 or William Howard Taft in 1912.However, opposition to the Democratic Party's liberal social policies has turned the county powerfully Republican during the 2010s, so that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 vote percentage is the worst ever by a Democrat.