What was the first political campaign you worked on, and at what age?

[brooklynite]

In my case it was Eugene McCarthy when I was 8 years old.

[demnan]

1. McGovern - I was 14

And at 15 I had the pleasure of hearing my mother say, "you were right!"

[livetohike]

2. John F. Kennedy

My dad was a committee man for the Dem party and paid me 25cents to deliver flyers around our neighborhood. I was eight years old :-).

[mobuto]

3. Theodore Roosevelt

I handed out canned hams to voters in his abortive 1912 run on the Bull Moose platform. We lost because we didn't have a kosher alternative.

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. Mine wasn't a presidential

but I worked for the Gov. McGreevey of NJ campaign in 2001, I was 17

[ElsewheresDaughter]

5. JFK....9/10

[FARAFIELD]

6. CARTER

In california i was 13, my parents were both Republican, my mom voted for Carter though, which still burns dad up. I think history proved that was the last time that BOTH men were decent. Back then I looked at it in a DEM VS REP thing but now I realize that either of them would have tried their best. BOY IS THAT MISSING NOW

[amandae]

7. Just signed up to work on my first campaign ...

to work for the re-election of a local congressman.

:hi:

[jburton]

8. Ann Richards, TX Gov. 16ish

[Bertha Venation]

9. Rick Zbur for Congress (CA) , age 33

He was trying for the seat of popular & effective moderate Republican Steve Horn. Lots of Democrats have tried and failed.

He's now on the board at Lambda Legal. I don't know what else he does.

[AspenRose]

10. Ann Richards

I was 22-23

[Raven]

11. Hi there! Gene McCarthy too! I was 18 and he was the first vote

I ever cast! :hi:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

12. 15 years old. Kincardine and Deeside By-Election.

Nov. 1991.