When was the first presidential election you voted in and who did you vote for?

In My Humble Opinion
41

Kerry in 2004.

42

2000 - George W. Bush (Yes, I admit it)

43

Same here.

44

I campaigned for Goldwater in '64, but was too young to vote (<21). I voted for Humphrey in '68, only because he wasn’t Nixon.

45

I voted for Bush in 1988 (and regretted it by 1989).

46

1984, David Bergland. Sigh.

47

I was first eligible to vote in 2004, and despite sending in my voter registration papers in order and on time, a clerical error resulted in my not being registered to vote until the week after the election. Thanks, government.

48

L.B.J. in 64. I walked the streets collecting money for Adlai Stevenson earlier than that. Little kid into politics.

49

I voted for Bush in 88,which is the only time I have voted.

50

Jimmy Carter in 1976.

51

1988, I was 18 at the time. I voted for George Bush.

52

1988 George HW Bush. Last time I’ve voted for a Republican.

53

Lotta love here for John Anderson. He had my vote as well in 1980.

I would have been eligible to vote in 1976, but don’t recall doing so.

54

I wasn’t eligible to vote for a president until I was 24 (voting age was 21 then, and when I turned 21 I voted in several local elections). It’s hard for my now-conservative self to believe, but in 1972 I voted for George McGovern.

55

I turned 21 in July 1972, so that would have been the first election I was eligible to vote in. I probably voted for Nixon; my father thought he was courageous for instituting the wage-price freeze a few years earlier, and that he was doing a good job of getting us out of Vietnam (even at 21, I was too young to have my own political thoughts.) McGovern, I probably thought at the time, was just an embarrassment.

Wow, talk about embarrassed!

56

'00 - Jefferson.

At the time, it was really more a vote against Adams. Totalitarian bastard.

57

'76 and for Carter.

58

I registered Republican in the state of Connecticut in 1980 so I could support John Anderson. After Reagan got the nomination I cast my vote for Dr. Barry Commoner of the Citizen’s Party, which was sorta an early version of the Greens.

I couldn’t stand the idea of supporting Carter and I was under the impression that my fellow Americans could not be so stupid as to vote Ronald Reagan into the Oval Office.

Since then, I have made it my priority to always support the lesser evil.

59

Gore in 2000. I was 18.

60

Carter '76