who was the first democratic candidate for president you supported even if u were too young to vote?

[mucholderthandirt]

114. Shirley Chisholm.

Yes, I'm really old. I was just starting high school back then. I remember RFK and that summer of sorrow, but I don't remember him as a candidate, just how much my mother cried. Her family were very much Democrats, Grandpa loved JFK almost as much as he loved FDR, but he was gone by then.

Funny thing, I remember saying once that she should be president and Daddy nodded and said, yeah, she probably should, but that no one would let her. He wasn't really political, but turns out he was right. And now look where we are!