Who was the first presidential candidate you voted for? Mine was JFK.

[CTyankee]

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[NewHendoLib]

1. Carter in 1976 when I was 20

[chicoescuela]

9. Same but I was 18

[TexasBushwhacker]

21. Me too. I was 19.

[maveric]

42. Same here. I was 20 as well.

[Tree Lady]

56. Me too also Carter also 20

[tosh]

64. Same, at 18.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

79. Carter in 1976

I was 19

[Basic LA]

2. McGovern in '72.

[Sneederbunk]

3. McGovern 1972.

[nocoincidences]

6. McGovern 1972

[MistakenLamb]

4. Kerry in 2004

[Elessar Zappa]

5. John Kerry

[whathehell]

7. George McGovern...

My parents voted for JFK..I was too young by about a decade. I do remember the day he was killed, though..What a heartbreaking, horrible, never to be forgotten day that was.

[rsdsharp]

8. McGovern in 72. I was 18.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

10. Carter in 1980

[Maeve]

11. Ford in 1976 on my 21st birthday

Came from a Rebuplican family, voted Anderson in '80, then Democratic ever since.
We learn and grow. (I was in kindergarten in 1960)

[Xavier Breath]

12. My first presidential vote

was Reagan just a day after my 18th birthday, so I can relate. I can't blame it on my family necessarily, my mother switched her votes between parties and my father stopped voting after the country refused to elect George Wallace. True story. I too have learned and grown.

[Raine]

17. My story much like yours

except my first vote was for Nixon.

[Cairycat]

33. same story for me

except I'm a year or two younger

[Drum]

13. Mondale, 1984

[riversedge]

19. Mine was Mondale also. I was so devastated that he only carried MN where

I lived at the time.

[Quixote1818]

14. I can't remember if I voted for Dukakis as I was only 19 but I did vote for Bill Clinton in 92. nt

[CTyankee]

25. I remember my mother calling Dukakis "that little Greek" and being so shocked at her.

But she loved Ronald Reagan...had a crush on him as a movie star. She was a Democrat but had this thing about RR.

[rsdsharp]

57. My mother was what I'd call an Eisenhower Republican.

That said, she knew Reagan in Des Moines in the 1930s. She worked for a doctor who treated him after a horse riding accident; this was before he went to Hollywood. She said she never saw him draw a sober breath. She would never say who she voted for in any election, but I seriously doubt she ever voted for St. Ronnie.

[sakabatou]

15. Obama '08

[Lanius]

16. Clinton in 1996

[Emile]

18. George Stanley McGovern

[electric_blue68]

20. George McGovern...

first wave of 19 yr olds who could vote in their first Presidential Election! Devastating. 😭
My actual first vote at 18 in '71 - I don't remember who I voted for (other than some Democrats). it was pretty dull, extremely off-off year!

But my first Presidential Campaign as a Volunteer was Humphrey.
Another 'Ouch!'.

[LeftinOH]

22. Reagan in 1984 (yes - I was young and stupid)

[Boomerproud]

23. Carter in 1976. Voted Democratic every election since.

nt

[ananda]

24. George McGovern in 72

...

[bpj62]

26. Carter

1980 I was a senior in High School.

[TxGuitar]

27. Dukakis

[mikewv]

40. me too (nm)

[brush]

28. The Gus Hall/Angela Davis ticket when I lived in Berkeley.

[FakeNoose]

29. Another vote for George McGovern 1972

For a long time I was a registered independent, however I've never once voted for a Repuke in all that time.

[Walleye]

30. My first vote was in the 1972 California primary, Shirley Chisholm

The first time I voted for a woman for president. I think you had to be 21 years old in 1968 to vote

[Jeebo]

31. 1972, McGovern, was my first year voting.

I was 22, almost 23. I turned 21 at about the same time the amendment giving the vote to 18-year-olds passed. I have never voted for a Republican for president. The only time I ever voted for a Republican for any office was 1976, when I voted for John Danforth when he ran for Senate for the first of his three terms. Danforth is a good man, well, for a Republican, these Republicans over these past few decades have gradually morphed into something vile and loathsome, I don't think anybody who hangs around these message boards will disagree with me about that. But in 1976, I voted for Danforth pretty much by default. Jerry Litton, who was a rising star in the Democratic Party, and who I think might have been president by now, was killed in a plane crash on the way to a celebration of his win in the Democratic primary for that Senate seat on the same evening of his primary victory. (Why do these plane crashes always seem to happen to Democrats?) The Democrats in Missouri had to find another candidate hastily for that Senate seat. They settled on former governor Warren Hearnes, who was not very popular in this state by then.

CTyankee, you should have more options in your poll. Not very many people's first presidential votes would be in 1960 or 1964.

-- Ron

[CTyankee]

34. I was trying to do a poll and had an interruption, then screwed it up, but ended up with that. I apologize for it.

[SlimJimmy]

32. President Carter in 1976. I voted absentee ballot from the military overseas.

[Mz Pip]

35. McGovern n/t

[mvd]

36. Clinton in 1996

I was a little too young in 1992.

[woodsprite]

37. Reagan. I wasn't paying much attention to politics at the time right out of high school and college.

I registered Republican because that was what my boyfriend registered as. I never participated in any primaries until I changed my registration. The only times after Reagan that I've knowingly voted for a republican was for Mike Castle (DE) and Bill Roth (DE). I started really paying attention to politics (local and federal) once I started a family in 1993 and officially changed my registration to Democrat in 2008 so I could vote for Obama in the primary.

I was gobsmacked by Kerry's treatment and loss in 2004, which is what prompted me to go looking for a community of like-minded people, and when I found DU.

[SKKY]

38. Dukakis was my first presidential vote.

[Kennah]

39. Bush 41 in 1988

[Jilly_in_VA]

41. LBJ

You still had to be 21 to vote then. In 1968 I campaigned for RFK until he was assassinated, then I stopped campaigning altogether but je;d my nose and voted for Humphrey.

[Niagara]

43. Clinton in 1996.

It was my 1st eligible presidential election!

[spanone]

44. George McGovern 1972

[ificandream]

45. McGovern in '72.

[Deep State Witch]

46. Geraldine Ferraro

And What's-his-name. (Mondale)

[BigMin28]

47. Jimmy Carter

proudly. I had just turned 18 weeks before in 1980.

[wendyb-NC]

48. McGovern in 1972

[ProudMNDemocrat]

49. McGovern in 1972

[obamanut2012]

50. Reagan in 1984

[RustyWheels]

51. Carter 1980

[budkin]

52. Bill Clinton 1996

[joedogs]

53. Nixon

First election that i voted in was for Nixon

[ClimateHawk]

54. Obama 2008

[bamagal62]

55. Jimmy Carter

[BlueTsunami2018]

58. Sad to say, Poppy Bush

I wasn’t very politically aware until later. Voted for that asshole twice before I figured it out.

[dmr]

59. In 3rd grade i voted for JFK.

My 1st official vote was George McGovern.

I wanted the war to end, and I wanted my brother to come home to me.

He almost didn't make it.

[moonscape]

60. McGovern - seems I have lots of company!

[dweller]

61. McGovern

I was 18


✌🏻

[Glorfindel]

62. Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964

I was 19, and THRILLED to be able to cast my vote for Democrats all down the ticket. I have never voted any other way.

[rogerballard]

63. Bill Clinton

[Rebl2]

65. Carter

[AllaN01Bear]

66. carter .

[ColinC]

67. JFK -John Forbes Kerry

[hedda_foil]

68. I was stuck with Humphrey after RFK's assassination. But i voted for him.

[Initech]

69. Al Gore, 2000

Fuck Fox News for stealing that one.

[Celerity]

70. Hillary in 2016

[liberaltrucker]

71. Tricky Dick in 1972

Youthful indiscretion . Voted Dem ever since.

[Mossfern]

72. McGovern in 1972

I was a year too young in 1968, and then they changed the voting age.

[lees1975]

73. Carter, 1976, I just turned 18 two days before the registration deadline.

[JohnSJ]

74. McGovern

[LakeArenal]

75. George McGovern

[RussellCattle]

76. Hubert H. Humphrey (The Happy Warrior) in 1968 after he had made a campaign stop at Kent State University.

Proud to say that I voted AGAINST Nixon twice, Reagan twice, the Bushes four times and the Orange Menace twice.

[Crunchy Frog]

77. Mondale.

[MustLoveBeagles]

78. President Clinton 92

I was 20.

[honest.abe]

80. Carter 1980.

I was in college at the time just returning from Peace Corps in the Philippines.