Post the 1st vote you ever made and the year.

[Pryderi]

1980 - Reagan

[NWHarkness]

1. 1974 Sander Levin for Gov of Michigan

[scheming daemons]

2. 1988 - Dukakis

....

[muntrv]

4. Me too!

[Codeine]

51. Yup, same here. nt

[Bluzmann57]

3. 1976

Jimmy Carter and various Democratic candidates throughout the ticket. And I have never regretted it.

[izquierdista]

5. Jerry Brown

1974 good then, even better now.

[XemaSab]

1996-- Nader

:patriot:

[Stuart G]

6. 1968 Humphrey...and proud of it...He would have

gotten us out of that damn war. Fucken Nixon.......

[mitchtv]

48. 1968 also , wrote in McCarthy

too bad HHH wouldn't commit to end the war

[Jennicut]

7. 1996-Clinton.

[madinmaryland]

8. June 3, 1980... Democratic Primary. Jimmy Carter.

I did vote in the local elections in 1979, but I do not remember who it was for.

[601Liberal]

9. 1993--Jackson, MS mayoral race

Voted for Kane Ditto, the then-incumbent mayor.

[corkhead]

10. 1980 Anderson.

I learned a valuable lesson with that election and never threw my vote away like that again.

[Pryderi]

16. I came very close to voting for him. He made alot of sense to me at the time. Conventional weapons

over nuclear weapons held alot of sway over me.

[AngryOldDem]

37. Same here.

But I felt good about the vote at the time. There was no way in hell I was voting for Reagan.

[Dr Morbius]

41. Same here, same result.

But damn, I wish we'd have gotten him elected. Very sensible man, fiscally wise but socially conscious.

[SocialistLez]

11. 2008: Cynthia McKinney.

[FSogol]

12. 1984 Mondale

[dana_b]

17. me too

[BuelahWitch]

55. Me three!

[Sebastian Doyle]

91. Me four!!

I'm trying to forget the vice presidential nominee that year though. Her racist tirades in 2008 made her as much of an embarassment as Lieberdouche.

[Crystal Clarity]

107. Me five! (Sounds weird doesn't it)

At the tender age of 18 I voted a straight D ticket in defiance of my fundie R family.

[Dappleganger]

81. Same here.

[Warren Stupidity]

13. 72 McGovern.

[Still Sensible]

14. 1974 - Mo Udall for Congress

1st Presidential vote Carter, 1976 (was also a voter registrar)

[left coaster]

15. 1976 - Carter! nt

[SeattleGirl]

20. Same here! n/t

[left coaster]

24. Always felt rather proud of it too.. :) nt

[handmade34]

18. 1972: wrote in Shirley Chisholm

[ashling]

19. My first presidential vote was for McGovern

I tink I had voted in a local election before that, but I don't remember.

[ChicagoSuz219]

69. Mine, too!

I'm still in shock over the results... ;-)

[msedano]

21. 1966 Pat Brown but

Reagan won the California gubernatorial race.

And so it began.

[Papagoose]

22. 1992 - Bush the 1st

I'm sorry.

[601Liberal]

23. All is forgiven

You're on our side now.

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. 1972 - Pat Paulsen

I was a rebel. :evilgrin:

[Blue_In_AK]

56. He ran in '68, too.

I went to one of his campaign rallies in Denver. It was a blast.

[Webster Green]

26. 1972..George McGovern.

I swore I would leave the country if Nixon won, but I didn't go anywhere.

[Flaneur]

104. There were great anti-Nixon slogans that year:

"Don't change Dicks in the middle of a screw, vote for Nixon in '72"

"The only dope worth shooting is Nixon."

[femmocrat]

27. 1972, George McGovern. n/t

[otohara]

28. 72 - McGovern

[ecstatic]

29. 2000. Al Gore

Waited in line over 3 hours.

[tabbycat31]

82. same (minus the line)

I voted for a school board election in 1998 but did not vote in the midterms that year (I was at college out of state). That was the only vote I missed.

I'll actually be voting 4 times this year (school board, municipal, primary, general).

[Norrin Radd]

30. 1980 - Lucky the Trix Rabbit

I voted "Yes."

[likesmountains 52]

31. 1972..voted to NOT have the winter olympics (1976) in Colorado

[Bluenorthwest]

32. Jerry Brown for Governor of CA

among others, 1978.

[LaydeeBug]

33. clinton primary '92 nt

[Raven]

34. 1968: Gene McCarthy in the Primary; Hubert Humphrey in the Final

I've mostly continued my losing streak ever since with a few notable exceptions!

[dumpdabaggers]

35. 1972 McGovern.

Still my best one.

[Fla_Democrat]

36. 1984 Tim Carraway

:smoke:

[MrSlayer]

38. It sickens me to say so but 1988 - Poppy Bush.

I didn't become politically aware until around 1994. Wasted my first two Presidential votes.

[WillyT]

39. 1974 - Jerry Brown, Governor of California

Curiously... probably doing the exact same thing this year, LOL!!!

:woohoo:



Official Portrait... hangs in the Capitol.

:shrug:

[nickinSTL]

40. 2000 - Al Gore

Ok, I was old enough to vote by the 1992 election and would have voted for Clinton, but I was at college at the time and not clear on the election laws...

I was living in Germany in 1996, so again, didn't vote.

Haven't missed a national election since, and only 2 local elections.

Speaking of which...I need to get my address changed on my voter registration...

[MellowDem]

42. 2004-Bush

Just had turned 18. Let's just say I've come a long way since then. ;-)

[TroglodyteScholar]

43. 2002 Barnes + Cleland n/t

[Pab Sungenis]

44. May 1988

Municipal election. Voted for my political hero at the time, Pat Fiorelli. He lost.

Voted for Al Gore in the primary and Dukakis in the fall.

[a la izquierda]

45. Jim McGreevey, 1997

I was a junior in college and I worked on his campaign. Whitman broke us college kids.

[Zoigal]

46. Adlai Stevenson, 1952

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

47. 1976 - Jimmy Carter

The last really honest president.

[DefenseLawyer]

49. Jackson 1988 Dem Primary. n/t

[Blue_Tires]

50. 1994-Marshall Coleman for Senate

in Virginia...(This was the infamous Ollie North/Charles Robb race)

I didn't know much about politics at the time, and my parents were hellbent on not letting North win, so they told me to vote for Robb...I was of course too cool to ever listen to my parents, so I voted for the afterthought 3rd guy...

[Arugula Latte]

52. 1984 -- Mondale.

[Blue_In_AK]

53. 1972 - McGovern

I could have voted in 1968, but I boycotted the election because I was so pissed about Chicago. That was a big mistake -- Humphrey would have been 10 times better than Nixon, but I was young and dumb and full of "principles."

[Contrary1]

54. 1974 - Senator Birch Bayh (Indiana)

Not to be confused with his DINO son.

[Greybnk48]

57. 1968 I voted for Hubert Humphrey and I still wish he would have won.

What a wonderful man he was. I was 19 and living in Ketchikan Alaska with my first husband who was in the Coast Guard. It seems like a different life, but I remember how excited I was to be able to vote!!

[rockymountaindem]

58. 2005, on a Colorado referendum on taxation

known as Proposition C.

[karynnj]

59. !972 - McGovern

My favorite vote until 2004.

[IDemo]

60. 1976 - Carter

[Anwen]

61. 2000 - Gore

My first election after turning 18.

[nemo137]

62. 2004 - Kerry.

[county worker]

63. 1968 Hunphrey

Though I worked for Eugene McCarthy as a Vietnam veteran against the war.

[Umbral]

64. 1992 - Jerry Brown nt

[emilyg]

65. JFK

I was so proud.

[Lyric]

66. 2001, Mark Warner for Governor

Turned 18 in 1997, but was totally apolitical for the first few years of my adult life. Supported Gore in 2000, but didn't get registered to vote in time. Have voted in every national election (and most state and local elections) since 2001.

[Odin2005]

67. 2004 -Kerry

[Politicalboi]

68. Bill Clinton 92

But it was that nut Ross Perot that got me interested at first. All his charts, and sucking sounds, sounded good. LOL! Then I woke up and voted for Clinton. It wasn't a hard decision by any means. I always regret not voting sooner. I could have voted against the Ray Gun, but didn't think my vote counted. And then 2000 came along.....

[csziggy]

70. 1972 - George McGovern n/t

[unhappycamper30]

71. 2004 - Kerry

[FarLeftFist]

72. 1996 Clinton

[era veteran]

73. 1972 .. I voted for ugh, ugh,

Richard Outhouse Nixxxon. I resigned from the Republicans and the Young Republicans in '74 or '75 because of the dishonor of Watergate. That act which seemed so wrong and dishonorable then, pales with the shit the Repubs have done since. Peace, Richard....... Oh, sorry about the Tricky Dick vote

[WillyT]

74. Kick !!!

:kick:

[Fla_Democrat]

95. I wish I had voted for Kick

but I was too young. :smoke:

[taterguy]

75. 1982, Student Body President

Myself

[Motown_Johnny]

76. 1982, Straight Communist Party Ticket .... Because I Hated Reagan!!!

I was to young to vote against Reagan in '80 (by about 5 months) so I did what I could to take my revenge.

[Unvanguard]

80. There were enough Communist Party candidates to vote a straight ticket?

I know they were still running presidential candidates in the 1980s (they don't anymore), but I didn't know they were fielding a substantial number of Congressional candidates.

[Motown_Johnny]

89. as I recall...

and it was 1982 when I was 19




I was able to vote a straight ticket the same way I do for Democrats now. No idea how many candidates there were.



Edit to add


quick search on Wiki turned up this snippet


In 1984, because of the popularity of Ronald Reagan's anti-Communist administration and decreased CPUSA membership, Gus Hall chose to end the CPUSA's nation-wide electoral campaigns.



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

[gleaner]

77. First vote 1968 .....

Wrote in Eugene McCarthy, the peace candidate I had campaigned for. He had left the race offering support to Robert Kennedy, whom I would have voted for if he had not been assassinated. I had just turned 21 that summer. I was heartbroken. I could not bring myself to vote for Humphrey because he had supported LBJ and the Viet Nam war all along and I didn't believe he had changed anything except what he was saying.

[MgtPA]

78. 1972 - My Dad (local election)

[Chemisse]

79. 1976 - Carter

I was too young by just a couple of days to vote McGovern in 1972. But being in California, we know there was no point in going to the polls anyway, since Nixon had already won. After that is when network news changed, so they did not call the race until all the states had closed their polls.

[eridani]

83. 1968 Humphrey

Campaigned for McCarthy in the primary, though.

[Obamanaut]

84. 1953 - 6th grade class president. nt

[socialist_n_TN]

85. McGovern in'72....................

[tblue37]

86. 1968--Hubert Humphrey vs. Richard Nixon.

I voted for Humphrey, of course.

[IcyPeas]

87. 1996 - Clinton (I became a U.S. citizen in '96 too)

[musette_sf]

88. 1972 McGovern

[rucky]

90. 1992 - Jerry Brown

[Eric Condon]

92. 2003 - Dem James Garner for Mayor, New Albany, IN

Oh, you meant for president? Kerry the next year. Although ACTUALLY, I should mention that in 2000, I was too young to vote, but I got my 18-year-old cousin (who wasn't planning to vote at all) to vote for Gore in my place. So, sort of Gore.

[nadinbrzezinski]

93. Gore 2000

was the first time I could vote after I became a citizen...

1982 I believe it was Salinas de Gortari

:hi:

[tilsammans]

94. George McGovern, 1972

A great American if there ever was one. :patriot:

[RB TexLa]

96. 1987 Edwin W Edwards

[HipChick]

97. 2008 - Obama

[lpbk2713]

98. JFK 1960

Voted for every Dem running for Prez ever since.

[izzybeans]

99. 1994 when McCloskey lost to Hostetler. McCloskey. It twas' a dark time.

[Mz Pip]

100. McGovern - 1972

[DearAbby]

101. 1976 - Jimmy Carter

[madchick44]

102. JFK -1960

Obama-2008

[many a good man]

103. 1980 - Ted Kennedy

I was passing out emory boards with the words "Emil Masgay for Clerk of Courts".

The following November I pulled the lever for a straight Dem ticket and everyone I voted for won! That day I gave out free pencils with the County Coroner's name on them.

[canetoad]

105. 1972

ALP (Australian Labour Party) whose win in the Australian general election made Gough Whitlam prime minister. He introduced national health care. Pretty happy about it.

[NuttyFluffers]

106. 1996 Clinton

and now i have dated myself... :cry:

[Madam Mossfern]

108. I worked for McCarthy campaign in '68 but...

I was only 20 years old so I was not yet able to vote.
My first vote was for McGovern in 1972.

What year was it again that they changed the voting age.
I remember "Old enough to die for your country, yet not to vote!" or something like that.

On edit: Eventually I will learn to post in the proper place.

[LeftishBrit]

109. 1983; for Labour; Michael Foot was leader; directly voted for Frank Dobson MP

In the UK, you directly vote for the MP, not the prime minister.

My MP won; but of course, and very sadly, Thatcher's Tories beat Foot's Labourites.