Will this be your first General Election without a Bush or Clinton on the ballot?

[newmajority]

My first general election vote was 1984. This will be the first GE I will vote in without a Bush or Clinton on the ballot. And it's about damn time.

How about you, DU'ers?

[TwilightGardener]

1. Yes. My first GE vote was 1988, proudly voted for Dukakis.

[rucky]

5. I missed voting age by 2 weeks for that one.

Pissah

[NatBurner]

21. me too

i was so bright-eyed and bushy-tailed back then

[scheming daemons]

2. I'm certainly hoping (and expecting) that Obama won't put a Clinton on the ticket...

[rucky]

3. Yes! And I'm almost 40.

Fin-o-fucking-ly!

[mikelgb]

4. im a young'un

[onehandle]

6. Your years are off by one. I was born in 1962 and voted for Carter in 1980.

And I'd do it again.

[mohc]

15. I am assuming he is counting GHW Bush as VP

But that still makes the years off. Being born in 1962 would have you be 18 in time for the 1980 election, but the last non Bush or Clinton election by this measure is 1976 and that should be the focus. Someone born in 1959 would have been 17 in 1976 and therefore unable to vote, so November 1958 should really be the cutoff.

[onehandle]

18. Ah. True. nt

[samdogmom]

7. Unfortunately, I came of voting "age" just AFTER the Nixon years.....Sigh!

I voted for Carter...I'll never truly accept the Reagan take over. It was a huge disappointment! (And, I worked for Walter Mondale during the Reagan campaign!)

[papapi]

8. I voted for McGovern the first time and the Dem candidate ever since.

I was eighteen years old and it was the first time eighteen year olds could vote. Voting age was 21 before that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern

I might add that I have a very good feeling about this election. This hasn't always been so when voting Democratic.

[Doityourself]

9. I turned 18 in Feb. 1983..so there you have it. Guess you know how I voted in the poll, eh?

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. My first GE was 2000... I became a citizen in 1998

so I was very excited to cast for Gore... but there was George

I moved to the states in 1984...

Of course I could tell you how I feel about elections these days and how much my vote really counts... not for much... but I will still vote and participate in the process, as much as I know in my gut it is rigged

The same reason I voted in Mexico... never mind it didn't count there either

Yes, call me Mrs Cynical!

[cliffordu]

11. Pretty amazing when you look at the dynasty(s) like that.

[mtnsnake]

30. 1 Clinton is not a dynasty. Wake the fuck up or enlighten me to the other Clinton who was president

[onehandle]

33. He was a dynasty of one.

I'm of course kidding, but don't expect others to get your point.

[newmajority]

36. There isn't going to be one now

But 6 months ago, everyone was calling her "inevitable" and assuming a quick coronation in February.

Thank God that party was cancelled. :)

[cliffordu]

37. what he said.

[cliffordu]

38. well....how about dynasty interrupted.

are you fucking happy now??

[nsd]

12. GHW Bush was on the ballot in 1980, so you'd have to have been born by 1958, not 1962, to ...

... vote in an election that didn't feature a Bush or a Clinton.

[newmajority]

14. You are correct.

Just updated the poll. Thanks :hi:

[woolldog]

13. It's part of the reason I don't want her as VP.

I've never had a ballot w/o a Bush or Clinton. :(

[TornadoTN]

16. My first GE was in 2000

Voted for Gore in 2000.

Voted for Edwards in the primary in 2004, Kerry in the GE

Voted Obama in the primary in 2008, will vote Obama in the GE

[skooooo]

17. nm

[Lone_Star_Dem]

19. Yes, this will be my first.

I hadn't stopped to realize that yet, but it's true.

[psychopomp]

23. Same here

:toast:

[gmudem]

20. This will be my first Presidential Election period

And I'm happy to get the chance to vote for Obama and not have to be forced to vote for Clinton.

[Hamlette]

22. I was born in 1950 I've only voted in ONE GE without one of them on the ballot

in honestly thought, it was the Bushes who ran 6 times and Clinton only 2.

It's the Bushes who have been dominating GEs.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

24. My first vote went to McGovern in 1972 n/t

[donheld]

25. 1959, 1960, 1961, didn't exist?

Where are they on your poll?

[HCE SuiGeneris]

26. We are the lost generation... for real.

[newmajority]

27. Those were the "lost years"

Elvis was in the army....Buddy Holly died......Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year old cousin.....Chuck Berry got locked up, and the charts were taken over by crap like Fabian and Pat Boone.

Nah seriously, sorry about that. No disrespect intended.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

28. Humpty and Nixon were on the ballot for my first presdidential election.

I voted for Dr. Spock, the Peace & Freedom Party candidate.

[mtnsnake]

29. You make it sound like more than 1 Clinton has been a Pres nominee & you also make it sound like

he's a Republican and that his 8 wonderful years were a disgrace.

:wtf:

[Lilith Velkor]

35. SOP for neo-Naderites

:shrug:

[onehandle]

31. Additionally, I worked for Clinton/Gore in 1992 and 1996 and would do so again.

I celebrate the end of the Bush family's run. Bill Clinton was a good President.

And I did not support Hillary during this primary, but would have if she would have won the primary.

[Heather MC]

32. This will be my first time ever Voting in GE

I could have voted for the first clinton term
but I was not allowed to vote, for religious reasons. Since then I have never gotten involved
but this year, I will be casing my vote for BARACK OBAMA
and i can't wait!!!!!

[azmouse]

34. That's freaking scary.

I first voted in 1980. Never have had a GE without a Bush/Clinton.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

39. Born 1991. All my life's been Bush and Clinton. All I can reliably remember are razor-thin elections

Can't even vote until '09--a year too late this time around. 'Sall very strange. :)

[rndmprsn]

40. since voting age...Clinton, Clinton, Nader, Kerry

yup...

[TexasObserver]

41. The top of the first ballot I ever voted, I voted against George HW Bush.

1970 US Senate Race in Texas. His Democratic opponent was Lloyd Bentsen. Bentsen won.