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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 07:55 PM
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What was the first presidential campaign you voted in?
mine was 1988 and yes i voted for Dukakis, he was also my Governor. i would also like to add that in the almost 20 years i've been voting for presidents the only one i predicted correctly was Clinton in 92.
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muntrv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 07:56 PM
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1. 1988, voted for Dukakis.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 07:58 PM
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4. are you still a masshole?
today was the tenth anniversary of us moving out of mass.
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muntrv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:00 PM
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9. Nope, I'm a Michigander.
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Le Taz Hot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 07:57 PM
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2. I had to wait for Carter.
as I didn't turn 18 until '73. But that didn't stop me from working the McGovern campaign in '72.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 07:58 PM
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6. cool and good on you.
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 04:01 AM
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42. Carter for me too.nt
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Rosemary2205 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 07:58 PM
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3. I voted for Carter 3 months post 18th birthday.
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DKRC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:17 PM
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22. Carter for me too - just a few weeks after my birthday!
:hi:
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racaulk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 07:58 PM
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5. My first was in 1996.
I was 17 in November of 1992, so I had to wait until I was 21 to vote for President. *ARGH!*

I have never really been too involved in the primaries (I really wasn't that politically aware or involved until after the last election), but I have voted for the Democrat in the GE all 3 times.
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HowHasItComeToThis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 07:59 PM
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7. 1960 KENNEDY
AND PROUD OF IT
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:08 PM
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18. Same here. Kennedy.
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lyonn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:25 PM
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24. Me too - he was certainly exciting
I thought it was easy to pick a winner, smart as I was then (sarcasm). After that my voing got spastic. Johnson pissed me off.
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nono Donating Member (357 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:39 PM
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30. Kennedy
Fresh out of Navy, and a happy camper.
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 07:59 PM
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8. McGovern in 1972
I don't think our party ever got over 1972.
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Catchawave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:29 PM
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26. Mine too, had to wait tilI I was 21, though I vol'd
for Kennedy in high school and was a paid staffer on CapHill before my 21st birthday.
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Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:00 PM
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10. Gene McCarthy in the Primary and Hubert Humphrey in the
General in 1968.
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DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:35 PM
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28. Same here. n/t
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ovidsen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:01 PM
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11. Funny you should ask
It was 1972. I voted for McGovern (bless his heart). I knew Nixon was going to win, but I had to vote anyway. Principle, I guess.
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dhill926 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:01 PM
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12. proudly worked and voted for...
McGovern in 1972.
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movonne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:02 PM
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13. Kennedy....
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TheDebbieDee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:03 PM
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14. 1980, Carter - Reagan n/t
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Va Lefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:09 PM
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19. My first too
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CitizenLeft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:59 PM
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35. me too.
Heartbroken.
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karynnj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:03 PM
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15. McGovern
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southerncrone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:05 PM
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16. 1976, Jimmmmmmmy Carter!
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kineneb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 01:16 AM
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41. 1976, too. Jimmy Carter.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:06 PM
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17. McGovern in November
Brown in my first primary.
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TwilightZone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:13 PM
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20. Carter, 1980. He won.
Unfortunately, his win was limited only to my sixth-grade class.

My first vote in a real election was Dukakis in '88.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:16 PM
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21. McGovern
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:24 PM
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23. Adlai Ewing Stevenson II. (1956)
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recoveringdittohed Donating Member (463 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:28 PM
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25. 1972 - Richard Milhous Nixon
I'm not a crook but I was an idiot.
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 09:07 PM
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37. Here's another 18 year old goofball who voted Nixon in 1972....
My first and last vote for a Republican presidential candidate. At least my roommate had good sense.
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 09:11 PM
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39. You have absolution, recovering...
No, I was not a dittohed. Also, I voted for McGovern in 72, even though I didn't really know why.

So, you see, it's a wash.
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asjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:31 PM
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27. Eisenhower
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:37 PM
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29. George McGovern.
I worked in his campaign in the Catskills of NY.
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MichDem10 Donating Member (644 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:42 PM
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31. 1988 - George Bush Sr. (I was young and misguided)
My moment of clarity was in 1991 the day Bill Clinton announced his candidacy. I was flipping channels during a break from classes and came across Bill announcing on CSPAN.
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JohnnyLib2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:42 PM
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32. Kennedy, Sigh.
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Justyce Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:55 PM
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33. Dukakis. And proud to say I have NEVER voted for a republican in my life.
:)
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riqster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:56 PM
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34. 1976, Gerald Ford
My first AND last Reep.

Hey, I was smoking lots of grass back then.:hippie:
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ileus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 09:06 PM
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36. 1988...
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 09:07 PM
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38. Mondale in '84,
though I really would have preferred that it be Hart.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 10:43 PM
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40. 1996
for Clinton
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 04:13 AM
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43. 1972, voted for McGovern
I knew then it was a lost cause, just as I was sure 4 years
later that I had voted the winning team with Carter/Mondale.

It was a desolate 16 years waiting for another victorious vote.
1992 was a pretty sure thing, and 1996 was a lock. 2000 was the
worst, as I voted for the winner, and the loser took office. The
loser retained office in 2004, and that was one of the darkest
moments ever.
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 05:40 AM
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44. 1988.
I voted for Poppy Bush, not knowing any better at the time.
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cleveramerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 05:43 AM
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45. 1972, Massachusetts, Mcgovern.
the only state that didn't go for Nixon. 49/1
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Alamom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 05:55 AM
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46. 1972 - McGovern.
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abq e streeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 06:41 AM
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47. McGovern
Saw him speak in Berkeley, Cal. in '71, and he was intelligent, eloquent, made absolute perfect sense with everything he said... obviously a man destined to lose to that paragon of integrity , Tricky Dicky Nixon.
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murbley40 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 09:41 AM
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48. 1960 John Fitzgerald Kennedy!!
:patriot:
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-18-07 09:51 AM
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49. Jackson '88 primary. n/t
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