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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBaby boomers who voted for Kamala: Let's hear from you!
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Meadowoak
(6,293 posts)SharonAnn
(13,910 posts)MaryMagdaline
(7,918 posts)Broward County, Florida
maveric
(16,700 posts)1956
brush
(58,022 posts)Guess they won't be waging "OK, boomer" generation wars anymore.
Farmgirl1961
(1,643 posts)1961
1956
greatauntoftriplets
(177,006 posts)I don't vote for pukes. Suburban Cook County -- Chicago.
JoseBalow
(5,630 posts)MiniMe
(21,831 posts)Hate the Rump
Kaleva
(38,541 posts)sandyd921
(1,558 posts)I happily voted for Kamala! Very depressed with the apparent result! How could that degenerate win again? Apparently a high proportion of our population is incapable of discerning who really cares about and is capable of addressing their needs.
cilla4progress
(25,979 posts)Here in the red part of Washington state.
1955
duncang
(3,729 posts)1. Not an idiot.
2. Not someone who likes to see people suffer.
3. Raised with morals.
4. Fear mongering about others doesnt work on me.
5. Wanted a actual leader for all.
6. List goes on and on.
Clouds Passing
(2,697 posts)1958 & 1961
yorkster
(2,515 posts)pstokely
(10,722 posts)But short they are in numbers
generalbetrayus
(667 posts)love_katz
(2,870 posts)I have been voting for 52 years. I have always voted for Democrats. I have NEVER voted for pukes.
Too many people get caught up in the personalities of candidates, and forget to look at their party's platform.
The pukes have been consistently anti-woman, anti-Earth, anti-body, which their religions tell them are evil, sinful and fallen. Ironically, they are only pro-death and pro- oppression, which is completely contrary to their claims of being pro-life and pro-freedom.
demodonkey
(3,312 posts)Born near the end of the so-called baby boom. Entering adult life in a time of frequent recessions, Gen Jones never had all the advantages that boomers did. I have much SO more in common with millenials and GenZ than I do boomers.
Anyway, I proudly voted Harris/Walz.
love_katz
(2,870 posts)As an old video says, " The Dirty Rotten Hippies Were Right".
We fought so hard, but not much has changed.
Too many people can still be swayed by vicious bigoted fear mongering rhetoric.
appalachiablue
(43,097 posts)Trueblue Texan
(2,999 posts)Granny Blue
(35 posts)1949/1954.
And just to challenge stereotypes, my Gen X son and daughter in law in Tennessee also voted Harris. We didnt raise fools!
Marigold
(215 posts)usonian
(14,600 posts)"Little daughter" and I are about 30 years older than these two, but we think young.
OKAY, A bit more than 30 for me.
Hippasus
(54 posts)my great-granddaughter.
gizmodog
(3 posts)Voted for Kamala, so did boomer hubby & 2 boomer brothers
Norbert
(6,612 posts)There is no surprise here. I am the same person I always used to be. The first presidential election I remember was when John F Kennedy won. I adored and believed in him.
Cha
(305,853 posts)CentralMass
(15,598 posts)electric_blue68
(18,685 posts)G_j
(40,439 posts)Woodycall
(340 posts)radical noodle
(8,819 posts)proudly supporting Harris/Walz. Born 1947
yellowdogintexas
(22,813 posts)1948 both of us
Fort Worth TX
The first President I remember is Eisenhower. I was 12 when JFK was elected, and cast my first presidential vote for Hubert Humphrey in 1968. (We could vote at 18 in Kentucky back then [since 1956].
I have voted for one Republican: Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee. He must be rolling in his grave!
appalachiablue
(43,097 posts)markodochartaigh
(2,221 posts)so did my sister, her husband, my last two living cousins, my nephew, my niece and her husband (he's Muslim so it looks like they will be moving to France, where he's from). But neither my niece nor my nephew is going to have children, so our family will be out of the picture in a few more elections.
PoliWrangler
(151 posts)I'm at the tail end of boomers. Voting for Kamala was a no-brainer
Otto_Harper
(775 posts)Mme. Defarge
(8,570 posts)niyad
(120,663 posts)therewere 16 votes for Harris--Walz, straight Dem all the way down ballot as well.
Uncle Joe
(60,265 posts)Days later they even cancelled the Saturday morning cartoons, and I was angry at first, but that was my initiation into absorbing the news.
The 60s social turmoil and protests for equal and civil rights seems as natural to me as drinking water, life should be fair for everyone.
*rump and today's oligarchs, both national and global are the furthest things from those ideals.
Thanks for the thread TheGreatConspiracy
BMW2020RT
(146 posts)mainer
(12,207 posts)I think Boomers went for Harris. It was the 35-60 year old white voters who didnt.
cassie321
(4 posts)I continue to be stunned by their cruelty. I recall them celebrating when the house voted to repeal the ACA.
soldierant
(8,003 posts)bt i claim Boomer status because I was conceived when I was because my father was discharged earlt for medical reasons.
I have never voted for a Republican for anyting in my life ans was not about to start now.
Back in the day my Mom and Dad could register, one as Republican, one as Democrat, in order to get information from both sides because back in the day it contained unfornation,, not merely lies and propaganda. That would not be possible today. My Dad passed away when I was 4 days old, so I can't discuss his voting record. But Mom always voted for Democrats.
generalbetrayus
(667 posts)Way back in the past I was a moderate Republican, but have voted Democratic for President since 1984 (I missed the chance to vote in 1980 because of a conflict, but would not have voted for Ronnie Raygun if I had voted.) I have only voted for one Republican down-ballot since 1980. Boomers are the generation that protested the Vietnam War and mostly supported progressive issues. Of course, there are/were Boomers who never saw the light.
Faux pas
(15,421 posts)booming friends and their kids
Ohioboy
(3,498 posts)She was the only one on the ballot qualified.
bunny planet
(10,876 posts)Me too, voted for Kamala!
Kalifornia9
(56 posts)In a central valley county that turned red this round. I've been too depressed to even look at a Polly tickle site until today.
Stupidity and complacency reigns supreme. I've lost all hope.
PortTack
(34,830 posts)Duppers
(28,260 posts)Last edited Thu Dec 5, 2024, 08:56 PM - Edit history (1)
Of course I voted for our future President.
JMN1958
(2 posts)JurassicCat
(1 post)KitFox
(75 posts)Me, a Boomer widow, my 4 Gen X kids and their spouses , and 2 Gen Z grandkids all voted for Kamala and all Dems down ballot.
poli-junkie
(1,157 posts)1963
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orangecrush
(22,122 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(116,480 posts)Born August 1, 1957. Proudly voted for her.
wryter2000
(47,600 posts)Greatest vote I ever cast
TheGreatConspiracy
(54 posts)are entirely nasty messages from angry MAGAs.
Akacia
(636 posts)Bitbit
(138 posts)GoodRaisin
(9,634 posts)Loupe Garoue
(77 posts)The only non-criminal candidate. My heart is breaking over losing our democracy because people are too stupid to remember what happened a few years ago. I also dont think he won fairly, which he telegraphed because he wants us to know he can get away with anything..
Loupe Garoue
(77 posts)The only non-criminal candidate. My heart is breaking over losing our democracy because people are too stupid to remember what happened a few years ago. I also dont think he won fairly, which he telegraphed because he wants us to know he can get away with anything..
phylny
(8,608 posts)Boomer friends, both brothers, two sisters-in-law.
Were all white.
ShepKat
(432 posts)Livid doesn't describe my rage at the dum phucks who voted otherwise to throw every woman under the bus. Idiots.
Submariner
(12,715 posts)what a sad end to her campaign. I am barely containing my rage. I have share the same space and breathe the same air of 72 million racist scum.
Today is Veteran's Day. Trump should NEVER be allowed into ANY veterans cemetery ever.
If he is allowed entry to a veterans cemetery, hopefully, for his sake, some homeless veteran from the graveyard and doesn't emerge and beat him to a bloody fucking pulp to show him what so-called suckers and losers thinks of him. I can't say more without having the USSS up my ass, so welcome to fucking hell.
Blue Dawn
(958 posts)1952
1954
1955
1962
allegorical oracle
(3,393 posts)left ever since. Am 77 in Fla.
mike_c
(36,384 posts)The wife and I both. We'll both be 70 in a few months.
Dalimama
(7 posts)Voted for Kamala without and seconds doubt. Boomer sister, brother, husband, cousin all voted for Kamala in SC, Ohio, CA and Virginia.
My first vote was for McGovern and I have never voted Republican. We were brought up to believe in common decency and vile behavior was a deal breaker. My family was mostly educators and valuing support for public schools was a priority. Theres no doubt that both my parents and in-laws who are all deceased would have voted Harris/Walz.
nolabear
(43,280 posts)Im still reeling. But I know so many of us did.
MineralMan
(147,987 posts)Doodles
(44 posts)Yes, voted all Kamaladid postcards, door knocking and phone banking. Also my husband and 4 daughters ages 36-46 all voted for her too. They are devastated and worried about their reproductive freedoms in particular.
oberle
(66 posts)mother voted for Kamala, as did her Boomer daughter and son, and Gen X care giver.
Ananda62
(308 posts)Born in 1962, so also considered Generation Jones. My older boomer siblings also voted for Harris.
kerry-is-my-prez
(9,409 posts)BigMin28
(1,487 posts)I voted for Harris. As did my son, and mother. My first vote at 18 was proudly for Jimmy Carter. Have a few of tsf's kind in the family. They are all unusually quiet. They better be careful. They all rave about and look forward to the Christmas dinner my mother, daughter, and I cook every year. Be a shame if that was canceled.
Ocelot II
(121,473 posts)Permanut
(6,714 posts)Voted for Richard Nixon in '68, learned my lesson in time to vote for for Jimmy Carter in '76.
-misanthroptimist
(1,226 posts)My wife, too. And my sister. (Neither of whom have accounts here.)
So what list am I going on?
mtngirl47
(1,104 posts)Plus I raised my kids right and they voted for Kamala.
VGNonly
(7,800 posts)for my first presidential election, rock solid democrat ever since. My parents were hard line RWers, as were my siblings.
I'm 67.
IA8IT
(5,926 posts)Redleg
(6,248 posts)Last year of the baby boomers.
EastBayGuy
(123 posts)But it's clear that no democratic messaging will ever make it through Fox news.
Alwayshopefull
(10 posts)She had my and my familys votes
bluesbassman
(19,902 posts)The rest of the generations down the line are a mixed bag I'm afraid. Breaks my heart, but it pretty much tracks with what you see in the polls and in the media.
elocs
(23,071 posts)I watched some of the Harris election night party at Howard U and they were so confidently celebratory that it was surreal in hindsight. How sad.
LetMyPeopleVote
(155,514 posts)joanbarnes
(1,894 posts)Greybnk48
(10,436 posts)I've voted for Hubert Humphrey my first election, and for almost every Dem since then right up to Kamala. One exception was Jimmy Carter, oddly enough. I voted for Ford and we lost, thank goodness. But I have to say I liked Gerald Ford and his wife Betty. I had no idea what a wonderful person Jimmy Carter is/was at the time. I thought he was too religious. What a dumb ass I was.
I'm sad beyond words about Kamala. I don't see how we'll ever have as perfect a female candidate as her again. She was and is amazing.
Hippasus
(54 posts)I think that makes us both boomers, although I do sometimes get confused about the generational cutoffs (and even their names!).
https://m.
John Farmer
(234 posts)I thought she was going to win, too!
I have a bumper-sticker on my truck: Felon or Prosecutor, choose wisely.