Who Was The First President You Voted For?

[Grassy Knoll]

Mine Was Jimmy Carter in 1976

[Chasstev365]

1. Walter Mondale 1984

[Bettie]

171. Me too.

I had just turned 18 and was excited to vote for the first time.

Some of my earliest memories are of my grandma taking me with her to vote and explaining to me why she was voting for this one or that one. She even let me push the levers for her on the old time voting machines in Wisconsin.

My great-grandma went with us and told me never, ever to vote for a Republican becasue FDR was a Democrat and he had changed our society for the better while they (Republicans) dragged their feet and whined about it. She was a straight ticket Democrat until the day she died.

[Chasstev365]

172. 😊

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. George McGovern, 1972.

[rzemanfl]

3. Mine too, because Humphrey and McGovern lost. The bankers and Reagan took down Carter

with mafia interest rates and stalling Iran on releasing hostages.

[GP6971]

4. George Mcovern 1972. n/t

[Zoonart]

127. Me too...

got me temporarily kicked out of my parents' house.

[Beartracks]

5. Bill Clinton. But the first CANDIDATE I voted for was Dukakis.

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[Wiseman32218]

6. Jimmy Carter - 1980

[LoveMyCali]

24. Me too

I was all set to vote for John Anderson until my college roommate asked me to go to hear President Carter speak. She had to go for a poli sci class and I didn't have anything else to do at the time.

I have been his biggest fan ever since!

[Wiseman32218]

48. He was one of the best!!!

[LoveMyCali]

81. He still is

an absolutely amazing man!

[Binkie The Clown]

7. Richard Nixon. Yeah, I know. I was an idiot!!!! But hey, I was just a kid. n/t

[Grassy Knoll]

14. I Was Too Young To Vote For Dick...

...But I Would Have Because Of Rowan & Martins Laugh In.

[Wounded Bear]

90. Me, too...1972

That was the first time for the 18 yo vote, and he had just given all us service folks a raise.

Haven't voted R since.

[DavidDvorkin]

8. LBJ, 1964.

[flor-de-jasmim]

9. McGovern

[jalan48]

10. George McGovern.

[dflprincess]

11. McGovern

and I'll always be proud of that.

[hunter]

12. Likewise, Carter.

Reagan was worse than I anticipated.

[HipChick]

13. Obama '08

[Grassy Knoll]

17. Yes, A Youngster Dem...

...Awesome!

[Ace Rothstein]

47. Same here.

Was 0-2 before Obama.

[FlightRN]

104. Me too

[FM123]

15. nt

wrote in Jerry Brown in 1980

[stillsoleft]

16. You mean elected president or candidate?

Candidate: Mondale
President: Clinton

[Grassy Knoll]

22. Either Is Fine..

...

[QC]

18. Candidate or president? I voted for Mondale

but didn't get to see a candidate I voted for win until Clinton in 1992.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

19. Carter '76

[crazycatlady]

20. That assumed office?

First president I voted for-- Al Gore
First president-elect I voted for-- Barack Obama

[Akacia]

21. Jimmy Carter!

[oasis]

23. McGovern, although I removed his bumper sticker after getting cited

for a minor traffic violation.

[lpbk2713]

25. JFK

Voted for every Dem nominee ever since.

[Grassy Knoll]

36. So Did My Dad, And He Was A Chosen Frozen USMC

[lpbk2713]

43. My two brothers were in Korea.

I was still a bit young.

Your Dad went through hell.

[phylny]

26. Carter as well, 1976 n/t

[ADX]

27. Jimmy Carter - 1980

[lordsummerisle]

28. McGovern n/t

[CK_John]

29. LBJ.

[LeftInTX]

30. I voted for Ford in 1976, but voted for Carter in 1980

My parents were Republicans....and I was 20 years old

I had actually seen Reagan in 76 and despised the guy.
I've been a Democrat ever since.

[nycbos]

35. All this considered Ford wasn't terrible.

He supported the ERA.

[RickHworth]

31. Carter 1980

Still believe he was one of the greatest presidents of my lifetime.

[nycbos]

32. Barack Obama.

Was only 17 in 2004.

[Mrs. Overall]

33. Michael Dukakis, 1988

[reflection]

160. Yep. n/t

[Freethinker65]

34. Mondale

[rusty quoin]

37. John Anderson by absentee ballot 1980 (military).

[Le Gaucher]

38. Obama 12

[JTFrog]

39. Carter 1980.

Funny how a spoiler gave us the second worst president in my lifetime and the worst. Trump being number 1.

[catbyte]

40. Carter 1976

[WhiteTara]

41. Lyndon Johnson

[CozyMystery]

42. Jimmy Carter, 1976

[shanti]

44. Jimmy Carter '76 n/t

[octoberlib]

45. Carter in 1980

[Greywing]

46. Mine was also Carter in 1976 n/t

[Jamaal510]

49. Obama 2008. nt

[Eugene]

50. First winning: Bill Clinton, 1992. First candidate: Walter Mondale, 1984.

[bullwinkle428]

164. We're obviously about the same age - my choices as well!

[Laffy Kat]

51. Carter! I am still very proud. nt

[PufPuf23]

52. McGovern for the vote, Carter for the win. nt

[CentralMass]

53. Jimmy Carter in 1980. I was born in 1960.

[sandensea]

54. My first vote, proud to say, was for the winner of the 2000 election:

[still_one]

55. George McGovern

[vlyons]

56. Lyndon Johnson 1968

It was the last year that poll tax was charged in Texas

[mvd]

57. Bill Clinton - 1996

Was too young to vote in his first election.

[spanone]

58. McGovern

[Barack_America]

59. Obama. I also voted for Gore and Kerry...

...but, well, unfortunately I can't say that they were a President that I voted for.

They got my votes, but it obviously didn't work out.

[mahina]

60. Dukakis.

I was too young to vote for Jimmy Carter but I love him, always did, always will.

Dukakis is Greek for Babooze.

[MFM008]

61. Reagan

I had no idea the difference between the parties. I just wanted to vote. By 1988 I knew the difference
and never voted for a Republican again.

[Lifelong Protester]

62. Carter in '76

And he's the only president I've shaken hands with.

[chillfactor]

63. Kennedy

and I have voted the Democratic ever since!

[oswaldactedalone]

64. Mondale

[Thinkingabout]

65. Hubert Humphrey

[sinkingfeeling]

66. McGovern.

[Les Cowbell]

67. George McGovern

Worked on his campaign too. A WWII hero and hero for standing up against the Vietnam war. Very underappreciated leader of our country.

[denbot]

68. Carter '76

He is a good man, I was proud to have served in the Navy under him.

[Wellstone ruled]

69. One of the Orginal Humphrey for President

Organizers in 1959 and latter voted for John F Kennedy in 1960

[Dem2]

70. Alfred E. Newman

[Grassy Knoll]

71. AE Newman Defiantly Won The Popular Vote..

..Every 4 Years...

[rpannier]

138. Have a relative

His first was Pat Paulson

[StevieM]

72. My first vote was for Bill Clinton in 1992. (eom)

[irisblue]

73. Jimmy Carter 76& I was in college in Ford's hometown of Grand Rapids then.

[peggysue2]

74. Mine was . . .

Jimmy Carter. Seems like a frigging age ago.

[Gothmog]

75. Jimmy Carter 1976

[jimlup]

76. Me as well

[Still Sensible]

77. Jimmy Carter, 1976.

[Greybnk48]

78. Hubert Humphrey

When I was 19 and living in a State that allowed me to vote (Alaska).

[musette_sf]

79. George McGovern, 1972

[brewens]

80. Technically Clinton. But I first voted in 1980 for Anderson. You said president. Clinton was

first that actually won. I voted for the democrat that lost or won in every other election.

The Anderson vote was only because I'm out west. I'm one of those that got home after work and after they had called it for Reagan. I had intended to vote for Carter and would have if there had been a chance. I'm also a huge Doonsbury fan though and really enjoyed the whole Anderson thing.

So I was drinking a beer and there was still time left. Anderson needed to get a certain number of votes to qualify for federal matching funds I think. At that time, I felt that his making that at least might encourage other third party candidates in the future. At the time I thought that would be a good thing. Little did I know! I was only 19. So I slammed my beer, probably took a couple bong hits, then walked the block or so to my polling place and voted for Anderson.

[PoorMonger]

82. Obama!

I was 18 in 08 - proud as hell to have had such an amazing candidate to vote for my first time out. Someday I hope to write an Obama biography to reflect on his legacy and my experience of it as a voter. I want to give it distance though as I believe that is something missing in the more popularized histories written now.

Even in defeat I am also honored to have voted for Hillary.

[Afromania]

83. Al Gore

first candidate and first winning president I voted for. First president I voted for that actually took office was Obama.

[trackfan]

84. Carter 1980

[Turbineguy]

85. Jimmy Carter.

Thanks for triggering a happy memory!

[BlueStater]

86. Technically, Barack Obama was the first president I voted for.

John Kerry, however, was the first candidate.

[marlakay]

87. Jimmy Carter 1976

[LibraLiz1973]

88. William Jefferson

Clinton

1992.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

89. Bill Clinton, 1992--In The Primaries AND The General Election

[mountain grammy]

91. George McGovern

kept that bumper sticker on my beetle until I sold it.

[JenniferJuniper]

92. Carter '80. Looks like lots of Generation Jones-ers out here

[csziggy]

93. Another McGovern voter - but the first President was Jimmy Carter

I still get pissed off knowing that Nixon stole the 1972 election through his dirty tricks. That is why I will NEVER vote for a Republican in my life!

[mrs_p]

94. WJC

But I volunteered for the Dukakis campaign when I was 13-14.

[orangecrush]

95. Jimmy Carter

I was among the first 18 year olds to vote in a Presidential election.

Vietnam vets bought me that privilege with their blood.


"Old enough to fight, old enough to vote."

[July]

167. No disrespect, but how is that possible?

I was 18 in '72 and voted for McGovern. Thought I was in the first group of 18-year-olds eligible to vote. Carter was later (also voted for him).

Am I misunderstanding?

[orangecrush]

168. You are correct

Sorry, it WAS the 70s...






http://blog.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/legal-research/today-in-1971-26th-amendment-gives-18-year-olds-the-right-to-vote/

[Doreen]

96. Bill Clinton.

I was to young to vote against Reagan his first round and I had been in a bad accident when I could have voted against his second term and against the first shrub. I just was not mentally with it to vote until Clinton.

[bellmartin]

97. Jimmy Carter, 1976

I'd recently turned 19. Thank you, 26th amendment!

In 1980, I considered voting for Anderson to protest the predicted Reagan landslide over Carter. I came to my senses and voted for Jimmy again. I've always been glad, both because Jimmy is an admirable person and because now I can always say I've voted by choice for the Democrat in every presidential election (11 and counting) and in every case, my vote was for the better person and president.

[WinkyDink]

98. Same. (Um, some are mentioning men who were not Presidents!)

[Thirties Child]

99. Eisenhower, 1956.

[RKP5637]

129. Those were different times, weren't they. I always thought of "Ike" as OK. My

father was a strong democratic politician back then, but he had lots of republican friends/politicians. They used to work together to try to come up with something manageable/workable for all. Now, it's totally different.

I think many republicans of that era are long gone and IMO democrats today are far different than back then. No, it was not perfect, but it seems politicians then realized we had to get along together as one country working for everyone.

[Grassy Knoll]

100. Billy Beer!!

[RandySF]

101. Bill Clinton was my first presidential vote.

[Wawannabe]

102. I drank that Billy Beer!

Clinton

[JI7]

105. Obama but Gore was the first candidate for Pres i voted for

[Grammy23]

106. Jimmy Carter 1976. Proud of it, too.

Carter again in 1980. 😢 First political loss. Very, very sad.
Not the last time to be disappointed. 😕 2016 was the worst, by far.

[GallopingGhost]

107. H. W. Bush

Sad to say, I was a Republican back then.

[Crunchy Frog]

110. Jon Stewart did too, so at least you're in good company.

[GallopingGhost]

112. I grew up with a Republican father

and a mother who was a staunch Democrat. I am still conservative on some issues, but I also have a pretty solid live-and-let-live attitude. The weird product of an awkward political upbringing, I guess.

I got a chuckle out of the Trump neighbor thread the other day. We lived next door to a lesbian couple years ago. They were good neighbors- quiet, pleasant and kept the weeds pulled. Why someone would think their neighbor's sexual preference is their business?

That's one of the main things that drove me from the Republican party. If the evangelicals knew the Bible as well as they claim to, they would know that judging others is strongly warned against.

[Pachamama]

122. Papa Bush was my first too...

Yes, I was also the product of a Republicsn father and mother who was a Democrat...he was the only Republican Presidential candidate I have ever voted for....

[GallopingGhost]

146. Same here. n/t

[moonscape]

108. McGovern in 1972

[Crunchy Frog]

109. Mondale.

Well, presidential candidate. First president I voted for was Bill Clinton 1992.

[dchill]

111. Carter.

I think that's ALL you need to know!

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

113. Dukakis

[Lugnut]

114. Hubert Humphrey

1968

[Bradical79]

115. First Pres. Obama, first candidate Gore -nt

[secondwind]

116. Hubert Humphrey in 1964. I was 18 years old, and

cried like a baby when he lost.

[Chellee]

117. Mondale

nt

[meadowlander]

118. Bill Clinton in 1996.

[demosincebirth]

119. Kennedy.

[pablo_marmol]

120. Carter -- '76 NT

[Lunabell]

121. Walter Mondale

1984

[randr]

123. HH

[JimGinPA]

124. George McGovern

[DemocraticWing]

125. Obama in 2012

[NCTraveler]

126. WJC nt.

[lkinwi]

128. Carter 76

[HelenWheels]

130. JFK 1960

[RKP5637]

132. K&R!!! He was a wonderful president! So sad he was cut down so short in his life. I'm still

sad about it today.

[maryellen99]

131. Bill Clinton 1992 nt

[Glorfindel]

133. Lyndon Johnson, 1964

[rpannier]

139. My parents both first prez election

Both voted LBJ

[Glorfindel]

140. I was very proud to cast that vote. The country was still heartbroken

following JFK's murder. And we all thought Barry Goldwater was a dangerous, lunatic, right-wing extremist.

[redwitch]

134. Mine too!

[RainCaster]

135. Reagan

I have mended my ways since then.
Former Republican. Reformed

[Hangingon]

136. LBJ '64

[rpannier]

137. If by first president you mean who won

Bill Clinton
My first presidential election was 84. Voted Bergland

[neeksgeek]

141. Dukakis, 1988.

[Maeve]

142. Gerald Ford

On my 21st birthday...followed by votes for Anderson in 1980, Mondale in '84, Dukakis in '88, Clinton in '92 and '96, Gore in 2000, Obama, Obama, and Hillary.

Took a while to shake my Republican upbringing. However, my Mom moved left, as well, and agreed with me on the last three votes!

[wryter2000]

143. Me, too, but in 1980

Voting age was 21 in 1976

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

144. First candidate Kerry. First candidate that won Obama. n/t

[Danmel]

145. Jimmy Carter in 1980

Didn't vote for a winner until 1992.

[retrowire]

147. It doesn't count if they never won. :(

So I guess I've never voted for a president...

[treestar]

148. 1984, Democrat, so it must have been

Mondale.

[maveric]

149. Jimmy Carter 1976

I was 20.

[BigDemVoter]

150. Mondale/Ferraro in 1984

[PunkinPi]

151. Clinton, '96. nt

[Skinner]

152. Clinton 1992

[redstatebluegirl]

153. George McGovern

[benld74]

154. Mine Was Jimmy Carter in 1976

[lillypaddle]

155. George McGovern 1972

Donated 5 whole dollars to him and wrote "for peace," on the check.

[Blue_Tires]

156. Clinton/Gore 1996

[ProfessorGAC]

157. Like You, Carter

Turned 18 in 1974. Voted in state and senate/house race that year, but no prez until 1976.

[Expecting Rain]

158. Carter 76

But worked for RFK 68 (at 10) and for McGovern 72 (at 14).

[Roland99]

159. Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Kerry, Obama, Obama, Clinton

[sakabatou]

161. Obama

[Stellar]

162. LBJ

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[Yonnie3]

163. Jimmy Carter as well in 1976, but

I tried to vote for McGovern in 1972 and got the run around about registering in my home town versus my college town. I couldn't get it resolved before the deadline.

[ecstatic]

165. First Candidate: Gore. First Candidate who actually won: Obama! nt

[bdamomma]

166. George McGovern

[NobodyHere]

169. Kerry

[roamer65]

170. Reagan 1984.

I got Iran-Contra for that vote. I have not voted for and will not ever vote for a Repuke again.

[GulfCoast66]

173. Reagan

People change and I am living proof