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In reply to the discussion: Who Was Your First Presidential Vote - DU Poll [View all]Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)45. I could have voted for Hubert Humphrey,
but I was too pissed off about Chicago and everything else to participate in 1968 when I was 22. I had favored Eugene McCarthy, was really upset about the assassinations, and Chicago was simply the last straw for me politically that year. McGovern was thus my first in 1972.
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And you need to add "My first one is next year" for the ones just getting to 18 next year."
LiberalArkie
Nov 2015
#2
woo-hoo - me too. But I remember voting for David Frost of the same party...Maybe
ellenrr
Nov 2015
#59
We are the same age. I did the same as you, sans the write in, hence the dumb.
ScreamingMeemie
Nov 2015
#15
I can now roughly tell how old 218 DU posters are, as well as the average age of DUers
AZ Progressive
Nov 2015
#85