How many elections and/or primaries have you been through before

[BruinAlum]

This is just my curiosity. Honestly, I have never seen people take the primary process or their chosen candidates so personally before I came to DU and GD 2004, so I wonder if that is specifically because of this election 2004 or a message board phenomenon.

I'm not sure a poll will give an accurate answer either, but I'm just curious what it will reveal.

[kiahzero]

1. Young'un here

Didn't really pay as much attention in 2000 - I was only 16.

[One Taste]

3. Same here..

I was only 13 in 2000, but I payed some attention to the gen. election.

Voted this is my first primary.

edit: still can't vote in either the primary or gen. election this year.:mad:

[kiahzero]

5. I certainly paid attention to the general

I could tell Bush was full of shit then... I actually tried to warn people about it. But I live in Virginia, and the vast majority of the people I tried to warn turned out to be nimrods.

I am no longer in Virginia. =D

[DinahMoeHum]

2. I've voted in elections since 1974, when I turned 18. . .

and I started the first few years registered as an Independent, then switched to Democrat in 1984 (to volunteer for my hometown's ex-mayor's race for the state senate. She won) since then, I've also voted primaries.


:kick:

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. Proudly voted against Ronald Reagan in 1984!

Saddenned by the outcome, obviously :(

[MaineDem]

6. Voted for President in '72

But I've worked in campaigns since I was very young. One of those Campaign Headquarters Rats who did the crappy jobs the adults didn't want to do. I was happy just to be there. Now I'm one of those adults. :)

So, every campaign since at least '72. There have been a lot.

[bobbieinok]

7. I was totally frustrated in 60: my friends could vote but I wasn't 21.

In 1960 I was in college in Houston, and a bunch of us went downtown to hear Sam Rayburn introduce LBJ and Kennedy and then listen to JFK's speech. (Teddy also spoke on campus. I remember being surprised that he wasn't as tall as I'd expected.)

My dad took me to hear Nixon when he came to Tulsa in 52.

I have some vague memories of the 48 election; I know my parents listened to the conventions on radio.

Up until sometime in the 70s there was always the roll call vote -... "Tennesee, the volunteer state, proudly casts its ________ votes for ___________.'

..."Missouri, the show me state, home of Harry Truman, proudly casts its ......."

[vision]

8. about 4 or 5

In 1984 I was aware and active that way and in 1988 I was able to vote. Politics have been a passioin since I read a biography on Sam Adams in 6th grade. Now there was a bomb thrower!

[bobbieinok]

9. 'taking things personally'

In 1960 I had a bunch of democratic friends; we'd joked around a lot about politics and everything else.

When we were listening to JFK and the others speak, I tried to continue our joking around. But 'all of a sudden' they were all so serious and 'shushed' me very quickly.

I had liked JFK since 56, when he was nominated for vice-president. Sen Kerr from OK (southern baptist) led the movement to defeat him - 'Can't have a catholic president, you know. His first allegiance would be to the Pope, not the US.'

But I apparently was the only one who thought that liking the nominee did not eliminate all possibility of joking around.

[BruinAlum]

10. Thanks for that interesting perspective.

I was too young for that one.

[Rowdyboy]

11. Voted in each primary and general election since 1972