Who Was The First Presidential Candidate You Voted For?

[arwalden]

It is with deep regret that I must admit my first vote for President was cast for Ronald Reagan. :banghead: But I was young and foolish, and easily influenced by my parent's political beliefs.

[AlCzervik]

1. Mike Dukakis.

[long_green]

90. me too

I haven't given up hope yet!

[KitchenWitch]

95. Dukakis

I was in the hospital on Election Day 1984 so I was unable to vote then.

[libnnc]

99. I did too

Saw him speak in Asheville. My mother and I were so thrilled.

[miss_american_pie]

2. Clinton

[terrya]

3. Jimmy Carter in 1976

[Gormy Cuss]

54. Carter for me too.

You're old.:P

[terrya]

111. I'm not 21 anymore, that's for sure.

Or 31...

Or 41....

:-)

[Midlodemocrat]

133. Me, too.

[RebelOne]

4. John F. Kennedy

[1gobluedem]

5. Jimmy Carter, 1980 n/t

[nutsnberries]

128. me too. nt here too.

;)

[Spider Jerusalem]

6. Bill Clinton, in 1996.

Would've voted for him in 1992 if I'd been 3 years older.

[bluethruandthru]

7. Carter 76

[Tyler Durden]

8. George McGovern

I still remember the candlelight vigil, election night in Ann Arbor Michigan, 1972.

[Tikki]

19. Two more here for George McGovern.....

The Tikkis

[SCantiGOP]

52. another McGovern

I worked all day driving people to the polls in South Carolina. I got back to the apartment I shared with 3 guys in college. They were getting ready to go to Republican headquarters because they had free beer. I told them I was going to lie on the couch and watch the returns - but it turned out the race had already been called for Nixon. It was all worth it though when, a year and a half later, I sat with some other friends and watched Nixon say the magic words: "I resign."

[tibbir]

74. George McGovern - and proud of it!

[Misskittycat]

78. McGovern - 72 n/t

[ploppy]

103. Me, too!

George McGovern. I canvassed and phoned and worked at headquarters - and my big excitement that summer was meeting Wayne Morse at a Dem potluck. What a great man.

[txwhitedove]

112. Absolutely McGovern.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

9. None of them

I'm not American, do not reside in America and am therefore not entitled to vote. But the first presidential candidate I ever supported in a US presidential election was Bill Clinton in 1992, thus beginning my transformation from conservative Republican to liberal Democrat

[Deep13]

10. Jesse Jackson-- 1988 primary in MA

[madinmaryland]

11. Jimmy Carter in 1980.

[jobycom]

12. Walter Mondale, 84. Proudest moment of my political life was voting

AGAINST Ronald Reagan (who was NOT better than W)!

[SteppingRazor]

13. Bill Clinton, 1996...

never voted GOP, I am proud to say .... unlike SOME people I could name *coughcoughArwaldencoughcough* :evilgrin:

[eyesroll]

14. Clinton in '96.

The first candidate I supported was Reagan in '84, but I was 9 so it probably doesn't count.

[Left_Winger]

15. 1976 - Jimmy Carter

[Radical Activist]

16. Bill Clinton '96

There are a lot of those so far. :)

[Vidar]

17. Wrote in Jerry Brown in '76.

[Bill McBlueState]

18. Gore in '00

My first vote in a presidential primary was for Bill Bradley in the same year.

[izzybeans]

20. Clinton

[Hissyspit]

Just missed by a month Jimmy Carter in '80, so it was Walter Mondale

[regularguy]

67. Ditto

We must be the same exact age....

[wagthedogwar]

106. ditto ditto

did I say ditto?

[Hissyspit]

21. self-delete - dupe

[Richardo]

22. Gerald Ford

:eyes:

[Strawman]

23. Clinton, and in the primary, Jerry Brown

1992

[LiberalEsto]

24. George McGovern nt

[jus_the_facts]

25. I first registered to vote to take down David Duke for Gov. of La.....

....it was the exact opposite of what my Dad wanted me to do...he'd told me to go register to vote because David Duke needed my vote....I screamed at him from the top of my lungs that I'd go register all right...to negate his own vote for that FREAK racist...I went on from there to vote for Clinton/Gore. :hi:

[CottonBear]

41. Good for you!

My LA in-laws said that they'd vote for him if he ran for office again. :(

I've got to get my step-daughter registered ASAP. She turns 18 in early July. :) She'd better vote for a Democrat. We've been talking to her about politics and social issues and wingnut conservatives and the need to protect her rights as a woman. We even make her watch CSPAN sometimes (I know she thinks we're stupid and boring) I hope she turns out to be a Democrat.

[jus_the_facts]

116. Thanks and good luck.....

...sure hope they never get another chance to vote for that sorry excuse for a human being EVER again. :evilfrown:

:hi:

[vi5]

26. Dukakis

[NewJeffCT]

53. Me too... just missed voting for Mondale in '84

My 18th birthday was in December of 1984. I even remember picking Dukakis to win the Dem nomination in a college poli-sci class I was taking - and this was well before the primaries started.

[NewWaveChick1981]

27. Walter Mondale.

I was 17 in 1980, so I wasn't old enough, but I would have voted for John Anderson then. As soon as I was old enough to vote, I did. I've voted in every election (Presidental, state, municipal, etc.) since then. :D I've always been a diehard registered Democrat and always will be. :)

[noonwitch]

28. Walter Mondale

My first presidential election in 1984.

[huskerlaw]

29. Bill Clinton

followed by Al Gore and John Kerry.

[HPULiberal]

30. John Kerry

I guess I am the youngest one here then!

[leyton]

59. Nope... not quite!

I missed John Kerry by several months. Hoping to vote for a winner in 08 though!

[tjwmason]

121. Welcome to D.U.

:hi:

[catbert836]

135. Heh-he. No.

I couldn't even vote for Kerry (14 at the time).

[swag]

31. Carter, 1980.

CBS projected Reagan the winner right as I was returning to my dorm. I had a Latin midterm the next day, but my roommate and I were too depressed to do anything but get drunk. So we got drunk. I managed to pass the midterm, somehow.

[RetroLounge]

32. 1980 - Independent John Anderson from Illinois

RL

[dysfunctional press]

65. same here. john anderson. 1980

nt

[AngryAmish]

33. William Jennings Bryant

[arwalden]

45. Impressive!

You're holding up very well!

[AngryAmish]

46. I also fought at the Battle of Marathon

We kicked some persian ass that day, I tell you!

[Vidar]

109. Was George Patton there too?

[AngryAmish]

124. No, he was a liar.

[2bfree]

34. Mondale.

His loss just about broke my heart! Sorry to hear about the Reagan thing, yikes!

[yellowdogintexas]

35. Hubert Humphrey 1968

First one elected: Jimmy Carter

[maveric]

36. Carter in 1976.

They had just recently lowered the voting age.

[watercolors]

37. IKE

GUESS I'M THE OLDIE HERE!

[Bucky]

119. Good man. He'd so despise the GOP of today.

He certainly had his flaws, but he was someone who saw the big picture and knew how and when to take action. He would like McCain, Snowe, and Chaffee, but I think Ike would've bailed along with Jeffers. This is not your father's Republican Party

[rockymountaindem]

38. Currently, nobody

I was too young to vote last time. Hopefully I can still cast it for John Kerry in 2008.

[CottonBear]

39. Walter Mondale. n/t

[Broken_Hero]

40. John Kerry

I could have voted for Clinton in 96, and Gore for 2000, but in my laziness I neglected my civil duty. But the stolen election of 2000 woke me up, and I have been involved with the political process since 2000....

[atomic-fly]

42. Anderson...I think. 1980

[nickinSTL]

43. Al Gore...

Fortunately, I'll never regret my first :D

I'm actually old enough to have voted for Clinton in '92 and '96, but...there were extenuating circumstances I won't get into.

Since the first election I voted in (a local election in '99), I haven't missed one, though. And I'll be voting absentee in our state's August primary even though I'll be out of the country on election day.

[asthmaticeog]

44. Bruce Babbitt in the '88 primary, Dukakis in the general. nt

[arwalden]

50. I Remember Him...

... wasn't his wife's name Lorena? :hi:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

115. I bet that candidate wasn't a dick. -nt

[City Lights]

47. Me too, arwalden.

:spank: :banghead:

My mom voted for him because she liked his movies (:eyes:) and as embarrassing as it is to admit, I figured if my mom liked him, he couldn't be that bad. :blush:

Thankfully, I took the time to educate myself and didn't make the mistake again in 1984 though. :D

[Taverner]

48. Dukakis

And Proud of it!!!

Despite everything, I think he would have made an EXCELLENT prez.

[Reverend_Smitty]

49. John Kerry

it's not that I was apathetic before, he was just the first presidential candidate I was old enough to vote for

[tallahasseedem]

51. William Jefferson Clinton

1996. Unless you count the 1984 mock election we did in class where I was one of the only ones to vote for Mondale. My Mother raised me to be a good Democrat from an early age.

[formerrepuke]

55. Reagan '84.... I was a young, know-it-all college kid.

[livetohike]

56. JFK - I was eight years old

My Dad was a Committeeman in our town and he paid me 25 cents to pass flyers door to door in our neighborhood. I had to read the "street list" of Dems. and go to their doors only.

Wow, how is it possible that this was nearly 46 years ago??

[Pierre.Suave]

57. Clinton

and I was in the service then too.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

58. Well, I think it was LBJ.....

I wasn't quite old enough to vote for Kennedy.....:cry:

[Fleshdancer]

60. Bill Clinton

I was so happy I could finally vote :bounce:

[SeattleGirl]

61. Jimmy Carter. Not that it did any good. They announced his

consession JUST AS I WAS GOING TO CAST MY VERY FIRST VOTE FOR PRESIDENT! God, was I pissed off! I voted anyway, but I knew it was an empty vote. Yes, Reagan would have won anyway, but those fuggers in the east coast media blew it. At least after the uproar over that, they learned to keep their mouths shut until polls closed on the west coast.

[texas1928]

62. President Bill Clinton in 1992.

Was a proud day for me.

[NMDemDist2]

63. Jimmy Carter 1976 n/t

[LSK]

64. Bill Clinton in 92

That was a great feeling to get him elected. I remember hanging up posters for him in my college.

[Katha]

66. I'm a youngun!

Cast my first vote for John Kerry.

[jane_pippin]

68. Mondale while in kindergarten. Gore while old enough to vote for real.

:thumbsup:

[OnionPatch]

69. Jimmy Carter 1980

It was my first vote in a presidential election and I drove my elderly, lifelong Republican grandmother to the polls. She was so proud to be riding with her granddaughter to go and vote for Ronald Reagan.....only she assumed and never did ask me who I was voting for or I would have had to tell her I was voting for Carter. She would have died right there. Sadly, her man won. :(

[Lavender Brown]

70. Al Gore. I turned 18 just after Clinton's last election

[bigwillq]

71. Bill Clinton in 1996

:bounce:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

72. John Kerry.

[flamingyouth]

73. Dukakis

[Guava Jelly]

75. Ross Perot

shoot me i was young :)

[Maine-ah]

76. Clinton - first time around

[ikojo]

77. Walter Mondale

The first campaign I worked on was John Anderson in 1980...it was FUN!!!

[Anarcho-Socialist]

79. I'm a UK citizen, but would have been old enough to vote for Gore

had I been a US citizen.

The first US election I took an interest in was the 1992 election when I was 10 years old and hoped for a Clinton win. At that age I had a basic understanding of what Left and Right was, and did not like the Right.

I also hoped for Clinton victory in 1996 too.

My closest involvement with the US political process was in the Autumn of 2004, where my wife (a US citizen) and I went out on voter-drives in Dallas to register voters, with the African-American and Hispanic communities in mind. We were wearing our John Kerry lapel pins and buttons and had printed-out copies of the Kerry/Edwards platform. We enjoyed answering their queries about the Democratic platform with the universal healthcare platform being of major interest to them.

[Placebo]

80. John Kerry

That's right. I'm not even 20 years old yet.

[Nicole]

81. Jimmy Carter 1976

[nevergiveup]

82. Barry Goldwater

[WindRavenX]

83. Kerry

I was 20 =)

[undeterred]

84. Gerald Ford instead of Jimmy Carter

I didn't know any better.

[greatauntoftriplets]

85. George McGovern....

And I'do it again.

[RoyGBiv]

86. Dukakis ...

Still proud of it too. Worked actively on his campaign, fought with precinct heads three times my age, and pretty much pissed off everyone near me because I refused to see what a wonderful (ahem, choke, gaaak, sorry ... just threw up in my mouth a little) man Bush Sr. was.

[NJ Democrats]

87. None in terms of ME voting under my name

I did vote for Gore and Kerry on the machines though. :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

88. Mebaragesi

[catbert836]

136. I don't know that he was elected...

Popular election wasn't all that popular, especially not for kings in Ancient Sumeria. Perhaps you're going senile- the Alzheimer's should be well set in if you're really that old. ;-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

137. Thanks for noticing!

Yes, it's in the drawer where you always keep it.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

89. Carter in 1980

I couldn't believe Reagan won...He was such a joke!

[MrSlayer]

91. As painful as this is to admit: Poppy Bush.

I voted for him in 92 as well. Needless to say I had no clue about politics. It wasn't until about 10 years ago that I really started following along.

[Bucky]

120. I will now go prepare a long list of the things that are ALL your fault

I will be gone for hours. You have caused so much pain in the world. Grrr... When I think of all the ill you have done, I just... I just...

[hyphenate]

92. Jimmy Carter, 1976

In 1980, though, I went for John Anderson.

[Blue_In_AK]

93. McGovern in '72...

I could have voted in 1968, but I was so disgusted by the whole Chicago debacle that I sat it out. In hindsight, I really should have put my vote in for old Hubert, but I was only 21 and full of angst.

[ScreamingMeemie]

94. I have my own little skeleton...

Daddy Bush. :puke: But only because it was just pulling a lever then...honest. No political activity or knowledge here at all really at the time.

[swimboy]

131. I first voted for Reagan in 1980

by 1984, however, I voted for Mondale.

[JohnKleeb]

96. No one yet but I did vote a straight Democratic ticket for governor

last fall. Nearly got it too.

[SethInUpstateNY]

97. Voted for the late Paul Tsongas in the Primary in 1992 and voted for

Bill Clinton for President.

I was 20 at the time and can still remember delivering flyers that my mother, sister, and I got from the local Democratic headquarters and delivering them to registered Democrat households on Halloween day, 3 days before the election.

November 3, 1992 was probably one of happiest days of my life when I found out that Clinton had won late that evening.

[ashling]

98. George McGovern

[mykpart]

100. Hubert H. Humphrey, 1968.

I turned 21 about 2 weeks before the election (you had to be 21 back then to vote). The first candidate I voted for who won was Jimmy Carter.

[LSdemocrat]

101. 2000 - Al Gore

[Iniquitous Bunny]

102. Bill Clinton 1992

Actually, I voted for Paul Tsongas in the 1992 primary, but this was the one for the office itself.

[Pushed To The Left]

104. Bill Clinton in 1992! n/t

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

105. Kerry. I just missed out on being old enough to vote for Gore.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

107. George McGovern 1972.

Jimmy Carter 1976, Jimmy Carter 1980, Walter Mondale 1984, Mike Dukakis 1988, Bill Clinton 1992, Bill Clinton 1996, Al Gore 2000, John Kerry 2004.

Proud to say I've never voted for a Republican in any local, state or national election since 1972...

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

108. John Forbes Kerry

[sarge43]

110. LBJ, just turned 21. n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

113. Mário Covas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rio_Covas

[lizziegrace]

114. 1980 - Jimmy Carter n/t

[Bucky]

117. Fritz. Good man. Shitty hair cut.

Best Mondale line ever: "People from Minnesota expect you to have a shitty haircut."

[NoPasaran]

118. Sargeant Shriver, 1976 Primary

I voted for Gene McCarthy that November.

[TimeChaser]

122. None. I missed voting for Kerry by a day.

My birthday is November 5th

[stubtoe]

130. Bad break, kid. Hang in there!

[Pithlet]

123. Clinton, '96, but

If I had been old enough to vote in '84, it may have been for Reagan. I was raised by Repubicans, though mom is a Dem, now. That influence can be very strong on young minds. I can remember being one of the few who voted for Reagan in the mock election in middle school.

[Tenseiga]

125. Ross Perot '92

I was actually eligible to vote in '88, but Bush/Dukakis didn't excite me enough to register.

[evirus]

126. kerry

im 20 now

[mvd]

127. Clinton - for his 2nd term

Also voted for Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004.

In the primaries, I also voted for Clinton and Gore. Voted for Kucinich in 2004.

[stubtoe]

129. Jimmy Carter.

:hippie:

[Fox Mulder]

132. Al Gore.

In 2000. :)

[indypaul]

134. Adlai Stevenson n/t

[NNadir]

138. Mr. McGovern.

It seemed quixotic at the time, but it was a very good vote judged in historical context.

Like my current favorite vote of all time, he stumbled a bit on the matter of the VP candidate.

[azmouse]

139. Jimmy Carter in 1980.

I'm happy to say that I've only ever voted for Dems.