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Who was your first vote (president)?

This isn't about who is better or worse, republican, democrat, etc., it is simply to see the vast array of presidents over the many years. Mine was Obama
MontanamanM
Ronald Reagan 馃憤
LyricalOneF
@Montanaman I鈥檒l try to keep the faith. Just good to know there are still men like you out there. 馃

And do check out the film. Think you鈥檒l like it. I鈥檇 link you but I can鈥檛 do a stinkin thing on this phone.
MontanamanM
@LyricalOne I looked it up. Brothers and sisters star 馃憤
LyricalOneF
@Montanaman Yes, all unknowns. I believe their father is in it as well.
beckyromero36-40, F
It was in 2004, when I was 19.

I was planning on voting for Dick Gephardt. But he dropped out before our state's primary.

So I voted for John Edwards.

He lost the nomination.

So, in the general I voted for John Kerry.

On reflection, about a decade later, if I had my general election vote to do over again, I'd have voted for George W. Bush. Not so much for Bush's record but because Kerry was disingenuous about his own and because he turned out to be the dove his Senate record really shows he was, not the hawk he tried to pretend he was.

But my [i]first[/i] choice for president in 2004 is still now who it was then: Dick Gephardt. He was pro-defense, pro-union and pro-FAIR trade.


By the way, I voted against Obama [b]twice[/b] that same year. Daniel Hynes in Senate primary and for Mark Kuhnke in the general. Five times in all; in the 2008 primary and the 2008 and 2012 general. (we had no presidential primary in 2012 or it might have been [i]six[/i] times. As a person, I [i]like[/i] Obama and think he's a good role model. I just don't like a lot of his policies or how he 'politics'.) 馃槃
LyricalOneF
LyricalOneF
SW-User
@LyricalOne crazy old bat 馃檮 forget your senility pills?
LyricalOneF
@SW-User I take extra for extra senility.
akindheart61-69, F
i can't honestly remember. but i have always voted republican except i had a moment of temporary insanity and voted for Al Gore. i quickly recovered my wits
beckyromero36-40, F
@akindheart [quote]i can't honestly remember. but i have always voted republican [/quote]

If you voted as early as you could have, your age group indicates it was either Nixon or Ford. Probably Nixon. That's why you "can't remember." 馃槃
akindheart61-69, F
@beckyromero nope. i would have voted for Reagan. he was president while i was in college.
katielassF
I had to vote for Gerald ford, because even at a young age, I knew better than to vote for jimmy carter. And I was right.
Crazywaterspring61-69, M
Like Bijoux, I voted for Ted Kennedy in the primary and for Jimmy Carter in the general election. 1980.
CopperCicadaM
I voted for George Bush Sr.

I got the shit beat out of me on the walk home from the precinct for voting for the commies.

The presumption was that a guy in a flannel shirt with T-shit, jeans and hair down his back couldn't have voted for Bush Sr. and I had to have voted for the socialist (Kenoyer).

Taught me pretty much everything I needed to know about American politics.
Burnley12341-45, M
Tony Blair, though I much prefer Corbyn.
MarineBob56-60, M
President Reagan. I think
QuixoticSoul41-45, M
My first vote went to Kerry.
abe18246-50, M
Ross Perot
katielassF
@abe182 lol I did as well. I wrote someone in, the only time I've done that, in 92 because I knew I didn't want old man bush and I knew too much about clinton (my sister worked at the capital in Little Rock back then). So, I helped elect that creep as well. Looking back, old man Bush would not have done as much damage as clinton did. But hindsight is often 20/20.
abe18246-50, M
@katielass yes it is. HW did great in the Gulf War I was just starting to follow politics then I don't remember the bad things he did besides new taxes.
katielassF
@abe182 I don't think he did anything "bad" I just couldn't stand him. Still don't like that family. But there are definitely worse. Like gore the bore and Kerry, the ugliest gigolo ever.
Livingwell61-69, M
Regan then Kennedy
@Livingwell But Ted Kennedy only ran in the primary of 1980. He didn't run again.
Livingwell61-69, M
@bijouxbroussard Ahhhh. My first answer was who were my preferred first votes. I was referencing John Kennedy. My first actual vote was Regan.
SW-User
@Livingwell regan was an asshole.
Elessar26-30, M
My vote is secret 馃
Elessar26-30, M
@PotPrincess1 Please decrypt what you just wrote, so I can read and reply accordingly lolz
PotPrincess136-40, M
Sorry phone was in pocket must have leant on it 馃ぃ
Elessar26-30, M
@PotPrincess1 Haha, I feel you bro, happens all the time to me too 馃檶
SW-User
Let's see, 2000 so whoever was running in that election,that guy.
sweetiepoo36-40, F
@SW-User lol
Mondale I think.
RamblerM
I鈥檒l just say it was 1972.
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Jimmy Carter. I voted for Ted Kennedy in the primary.
DunningKruger61-69, M
Walter Mondale.

 
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