How did you vote in the 2008 Presidential election? (by party)

[Mr. Illini]

Without hindsight - who did you vote for/who were you pulling for?

If you didn't follow politics at the time then abstain from voting. I want to know how everyone actually went at the time.

If you identified with a different party then than you do now - use the party that you identified with then. I'm really taking a look at how many self-identifying Pubs voted for Obama.

[Goldwater]

McCain.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

McCain.

I remember being grilled by much of my family for supporting McCain - almost all of my family were for Obama.

[RaphaelDLG]

I was a self-described "classical liberal"/typical dumb 18 yo "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" male big into the "pork barrel spending" meme.

I identified as an Independent (lean Republican), voted McCain Prez, Mark Warner for Senator, and wrote in Shaquille O'Neal for Congress because I didn't like my unopposed Democratic congressman and his pork barrel projects.

During and after undergrad I drifted farther and farther to the left economically as I was exposed to christian democrat parties in europe and the reactions to the financial crisis - voted Obama 2012 along with Dems, Indies, and Greens for other positions in 2012/2014.  Voted Sanders 2016 and will vote Stein or Hillary if I move to a swing state along with Dems/Greens/Indies, though I think in a state like Tennessee it's smart to generally vote in the Republican primary.

[DavidB.]

I supported Obama.......

[VPH]

I was supporting Obama from elementary school

[Illiniwek]

Just too young but I would have voted for Obama easily.

[Intell]

Obama, though voted Clinton in the primaries, oh how have the times changed.
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[Mr. Reactionary]

Chuck Baldwin.

[Hermit For Peace]

Obama, though voted Clinton in the primaries, oh how have the times changed.
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Same for me.

[Mr. Smith]

Obama in the election, a mix of McKinney, Clinton, and John Edwards in the primaries....I was only in High School back then.

[sparkey]

Registered Republican for the primaries so that I could vote for Ron Paul. (I've since come back to the Libertarians.)

Voted Bob Barr in the general. No, he wasn't a great Libertarian candidate, but I'm still of the opinion that he was the best candidate in 2008.

[Clark Kent]

I was 10. Like pretty much everyone, including my parents, I was supporting Obama.

[LLR]

I was 5, but I was an Obama supporter.

[Goldwater]

Oh, I thought this was asking how I would vote, not how I did. I was 13 at the time, and it was the first election I actually followed. At the time I think I liked both McCain and Ron Paul.

[Classic Conservative]

Couldn't vote but supported McCain, as well as my entire school did. We only have six or seven black kids,  ithknsbiut back then only two.

[pho]

I supported McCain, but not as enthusiastically after he picked Palin. I preferred Giuliani in the primary, but he had dropped out by the time Texas voted.

I couldn't stand Obama then, his messaging felt like an insult to my intelligence. "Change"...change what? "Hope"...for what? "Yes we can!"...can what? Obama 2008 was like a living breathing Apple computer. An over priced shiny object sold to young people by very clever marketers.

[RaphaelDLG]

I supported McCain, but not as enthusiastically after he picked Palin. I preferred Giuliani in the primary, but he had dropped out by the time Texas voted.

I couldn't stand Obama then, his messaging felt like an insult to my intelligence. "Change"...change what? "Hope"...for what? "Yes we can!"...can what? Obama 2008 was like a living breathing Apple computer. An over priced shiny object sold to young people by very clever marketers.

As someone who voted for Obama in 2012 and would go back in time and vote for him in 2008... truer words have never been spoken!!!

[dead0man]

That election was the last one I actually considered voting for one of the two big party nominees.  I strongly considered voting for Obama, more so because Barr was so bad than because Obama was so good.

Obama 2008 was like a living breathing Apple computer. An over priced shiny object sold to young people by very clever marketers.

likely spot on, but that's not going to win you a lot of friends around here.  They love Apple, Obama and bottled water and hate it when people imply they've been duped by marketing.

[RINO Tom]

Couldn't vote but supported McCain, as well as my entire school did. We only have six or seven black kids,  ithknsbiut back then only two.

That doesn't really mean there were 6 or 7 Obama votes, you know.

[Lambsbread]

At the time, I supported McCain.

We were still a few years away from The Transformation at that point.

[dead0man]

which one?

[SATW]

I wasn't 18 yet, but I backed McCain-Palin.

[Mercenary]

Baldwin (C). I probably would vote the same way now even though my politics has changed a fair bit since then.
I have never really had party identification but I wouldnt have even considered D at the time.

[SingingAnalyst]

Without hindsight - who did you vote for/who were you pulling for?

If you didn't follow politics at the time then abstain from voting. I want to know how everyone actually went at the time.

If you identified with a different party then than you do now - use the party that you identified with then. I'm really taking a look at how many self-identifying Pubs voted for Obama.

So far 2 out of 49 or 4.1%-- enough to swing an election from 50-50 to 54-46.