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In reply to the discussion: Who was the first presidential candidate you voted for? Mine was JFK. [View all]
woodsprite
(12,262 posts)37. Reagan. I wasn't paying much attention to politics at the time right out of high school and college.
I registered Republican because that was what my boyfriend registered as. I never participated in any primaries until I changed my registration. The only times after Reagan that I've knowingly voted for a republican was for Mike Castle (DE) and Bill Roth (DE). I started really paying attention to politics (local and federal) once I started a family in 1993 and officially changed my registration to Democrat in 2008 so I could vote for Obama in the primary.
I was gobsmacked by Kerry's treatment and loss in 2004, which is what prompted me to go looking for a community of like-minded people, and when I found DU.
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Who was the first presidential candidate you voted for? Mine was JFK. [View all]
CTyankee
Jan 2024
OP
I can't remember if I voted for Dukakis as I was only 19 but I did vote for Bill Clinton in 92. nt
Quixote1818
Jan 2024
#14
I remember my mother calling Dukakis "that little Greek" and being so shocked at her.
CTyankee
Jan 2024
#25
I was trying to do a poll and had an interruption, then screwed it up, but ended up with that. I apologize for it.
CTyankee
Jan 2024
#34
President Carter in 1976. I voted absentee ballot from the military overseas.
SlimJimmy
Jan 2024
#32
Reagan. I wasn't paying much attention to politics at the time right out of high school and college.
woodsprite
Jan 2024
#37
Hubert H. Humphrey (The Happy Warrior) in 1968 after he had made a campaign stop at Kent State University.
RussellCattle
Jan 2024
#76