2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumJust curious. . .
What was the first presidential election you voted in? Mine was 1984 when I voted for Mondale/Ferraro against that senile geriatric Ronald Reagan.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)I remember that election, but I was too young to vote. I remember good old tricky Dick making that ridiculous victory sign with his fingers, even after resigning in disgrace before boarding AirForce One to slink back to the hole he crawled out of.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)redemption Democrats had.
But my first voting experience was still very special to me and I have retained that feeling of pride every election since then.
Thanks for starting this thread. Should be interesting.
LP2K12
(885 posts)2004.
I had just graduated high school and enlisted in the Army.
I voted for Bush.
I have yet to forgive myself.
I've voted for democrats in every election since and have never looked back.
Well, you have redeemed yourself! Sin no more and go in Peace!
BraKez2
(279 posts)...voted for President Barack Obama
cant wait to do it again in 11 days....
only 23 btw... thats why my first was 2008
unblock
(52,397 posts)calico1
(8,391 posts)But I lived in Puerto Rico at the time so could not vote for President.
I moved back to the mainland in 1987 and first voted in 1988 (Dukakis-Bush).
S_E_Fudd
(1,295 posts)Didn't go so well!
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)1980 voted for President Carter and I was depressed as all hell when Raygun was elected.
MSMITH33156
(879 posts)I kid you not.
reflection
(6,286 posts)but I was too young to vote. Ended up voting in my first presidential election for Dukakis.
Grammy23
(5,815 posts)Still glad I did it, too.
abumbyanyothername
(2,711 posts)And I would vote for him again.
The one President who actually lowered oil imports rather than just talking about it.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)I was eligible in 1972, but didn't register and didn't vote. I wasn't crazy about Nixon, although it's important for all of you too young to remember his time in office, that he was not yet the arch-villain of Watergate that he became a year or so later. Also, compared to Republicans today, he was incredibly liberal. But he was, even then, a paranoid man who suspected everyone of being his enemy, and trusted almost no one.
I couldn't work up any enthusiasm for McGovern, although looking back, I do regret that I didn't vote for him.
Binders Keepers
(369 posts)(The FIRST time, not the second.)
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)It was the year I graduated from high school.
JiminyJominy
(340 posts)Clinton/Gore
Dont stop thinkin bout tomorrow!
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)Clinton and Gore part II. Such a stress free election. I was 20 and voted absentee in college.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Should have been 1980, but I was too lame to figure out how to do an absentee ballot from college.
2000. I was a freshman in college and participated in the early voting process.
I voted for Gore or at least I think I did. SMH. I voted in Palm Beach County, the home of the butterfly ballot and hanging chads.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)AllieO
(18 posts)I was so excited, he was going to stop the Vietnam war and . . . then Nixon won, spent the night before his election protesting on the Capitol steps - in Topeka! Don't really know what we thought that was going to do