 About 24.3% of families and 32.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 42.3% of those under age 18 and 15.4% of those age 65 or over.Bennett is a solidly Republican county in Presidential elections.It has not been carried by a Democratic Presidential nominee since Lyndon Johnson’s landslide of 1964, although vis-à-vis most West River counties it has a sizeable Democratic vote due to its substantial Native American population, so that both John Kerry in 2004 and Barack Obama in 2008 – probably aided by local opposition to the “War on Terrorism” – came within five percentage points of carrying the county.