Who was the first presidential candidate you voted for? Mine was JFK.

[Jeebo]

31. 1972, McGovern, was my first year voting.

I was 22, almost 23. I turned 21 at about the same time the amendment giving the vote to 18-year-olds passed. I have never voted for a Republican for president. The only time I ever voted for a Republican for any office was 1976, when I voted for John Danforth when he ran for Senate for the first of his three terms. Danforth is a good man, well, for a Republican, these Republicans over these past few decades have gradually morphed into something vile and loathsome, I don't think anybody who hangs around these message boards will disagree with me about that. But in 1976, I voted for Danforth pretty much by default. Jerry Litton, who was a rising star in the Democratic Party, and who I think might have been president by now, was killed in a plane crash on the way to a celebration of his win in the Democratic primary for that Senate seat on the same evening of his primary victory. (Why do these plane crashes always seem to happen to Democrats?) The Democrats in Missouri had to find another candidate hastily for that Senate seat. They settled on former governor Warren Hearnes, who was not very popular in this state by then.

CTyankee, you should have more options in your poll. Not very many people's first presidential votes would be in 1960 or 1964.

-- Ron