I was stationed at Travis Air Force Base in 1972, and I ran around base driving a car with three bumper stickers:
VOTE (with a peace sign in place of the O)
MCGOVERN (with a peace sign in place of the O)
PEACE
I got quite a few looks at the air force base.
John Kerry I’m a registered independent, but I would say I’m more social progressive, but fiscally conservative. I tend to lean to the right and I won’t be voting Democrat in this election, I liked Geore H W Bush, but I recognized how horrible his son was for the country.
H. Ross Perot in 1992, though if you include primaries it would be George H.W. Bush. In every election since then I voted for the eventual Republican nominee in the primaries and the Republican in the general election. I voted for Rubio this morning, but if Trump gets the nomination I would vote for Hillary in the general election as the lesser of two evils, unless possibly there is a 3rd party candidate I could vote for without having to worry about contributing to giving Trump the presidency. Not sure what I would do if it came down to Trump or Sanders, though that is looking increasingly unlikely.
1968, Humphrey. Anyone but Nixon.
I was 19 in 1964, but at that time 21 was the minimum voting age.
Carter '76 and damn proud of it.
1992-Ross Perot. I didn’t actually cast my first GOP vote for President until 2008, although I supported the party downticket 80% of the time.
My first election was 2000 and I voted for Nader too but I’m proud of it.
“Anything but Nixon, man. A blender. Anything.”
– “Profiles in Chrome,” National Lampoon Radio Dinner, 1972 (comedy recording. Anyone remember those?)
The joke is, the Democrats decided to run a Pontiac GTO for president.
McGovern, 1972.
But of course, the first election I voted in would have been the 2006 midterm.
Seems like I just gave this same answer a minute ago.
I was born in 1961. The first election I got to vote in was 1979, but New York didn’t have any really important offices on the ballot that year.
I voted for Reagan in 1980.
I was old enough in 96 but was still a clueless enough teenager that I wasn’t even aware the election was going on that night. Then voted Gore in 2000 and have picked the looser every time since.
1984 - Punched the hole next to Mondale’s name, but I was voting against Reagan, not for Mondale.
You’ve picked the looser but missed out on the chance to vote for Clinton? :eek:
1988- Bush
Palin/Voldemort 2020!
1984, Walter Mondale. However, I voted for Gary Hart in the state caucus and was a Hart delegate at the state Democratic convention.
My birth date was just right. I was some months short of 18 in 1972 and didn’t get to vote in a presidential election until I turned 21 before the 1976 election. Stupid 26th amendment. I don’t really remember for whom I voted. I was just a kid.
Scoop Jackson. Got a call from Big Daddy Unruh, who talked to me for a minute then said “Hold for Senator Jackson” who then asked me to be a delegate nominee.