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« Reply #25 on: June 04, 2016, 07:49:27 PM »

1996: Perot
2000: Bush
2004: Badnarik
2008: Obama
2012: Johnson
2016: Johnson
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« Reply #26 on: June 16, 2016, 07:24:48 PM »

1996,2000,2004: Didnt know there was a presidential election

2008: Would have enthusiastically for Clinton in the primaries. McCain in the general, really was pissed off and I was a child.

2012: Obama

2016: enthusiastically Clinton, by far my favorite politician
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« Reply #27 on: June 16, 2016, 07:34:49 PM »

LIKELY HYPOTHETICALS
1992:  No opinion, three years old
1996:  Dole, enthusiastically, because Clinton was an evil lying adulterer
2000:  Bush, enthusiastically, because abortion and lazy democrats just want to take your money
2004:  Bush, because he's a good guy to get a beer with plus abortion plus flatter tax, though I opposed Iraq

ACTUAL VOTES
2008:  McCain, "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" 18 yo voting for the "Maverick"
2012:  Obama, rapidly became far left-of-center after college
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« Reply #28 on: June 17, 2016, 01:01:35 AM »

1968--via womb, Humphery (Thanks Mom!)
1972--Grover (write-in--misspelled)
1976--Carter
1980--Anderson
1984--Fritz

Actual votes:

Primary and General

1988--Paul Simon--Dukakis
1992--Clinton--Clinton
1996--Clinton
2000--Bradley--Gore
2004--Kerry--Kerry
2008--Clinton--Obama
2012--Obama
2016--Clinton--Clinton
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« Reply #29 on: June 17, 2016, 01:15:07 AM »

1998: Roland, Franks, Gejdenson
2000: Bush, Lieberman (pity), Simmons
2002: Roland, Simmons
2004: Kerry, Dodd, Simmons
2006: Rell, Lieberman, Simmons
2008: Obama, Sullivan
2010: Foley, McMahon, Peckinpaugh
2012: Romney, Formica, McMahon
2014: LePage, Collins, Poliquin
2016: Plan to: Johnson, Poliquin
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« Reply #30 on: June 17, 2016, 05:13:53 AM »

In 2004, Kerry. I was an enthusiastic Kerry supporter and would constantly berate anybody in my HS who supported Bush. I recall a lovely convo when we had a doormat substitute teacher in French class. We were drawing on the board and of course I was being political (drawing Bush bombing everybody in Iraq). I made a comment along the lines of "We shouldn't be sending them [troops] over there, because they're all gonna die". Some girl piped up and said "my brother's over there", to which I responded "well...he's gonna die", since I've never been somebody to back down when whiners want to get attention and try to distract from my absolutism. Then some other girl started getting sassy with me and it almost came to fisticuffs before the teacher jumped in.

I voted for Gore in 2000 in our county school system's mock election. I really didn't have a fundamental understanding of the difference between the two parties then. I do remember thinking that Gore should be President because he had more votes (we had a mock presidential student president debate and also discussed the 2000 election for a few days in 7th grade).

I think I would have voted for Dole in 1996, given the fact that I had no understanding of politics as a 8 year-old and given the fact that my Southron society was heavily Republican even then.

I was 4 in 1992 and an infant in 1988, so who care
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« Reply #31 on: June 17, 2016, 08:16:34 AM »

2004: I'd be two years old
2008: Without Hindsight: Huckabee in Primary; McCain in General
2012: Without Hindsight: Santorum in Primary; Romney in General
2016: Cruz in Primary; Trump in General

2008: With Hindsight: Paul in Primary; Baldwin in General
2012: With Hindsight: Paul in Primary; Romney in General
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« Reply #32 on: June 17, 2016, 08:21:19 AM »

2000: Gore (Bradley in Primary).
2004: Kerry (Dean in Primary)
2008: Obama (Clinton or even Kucinich in primary, I liked Obama more than Clinton, but I felt she'd get more done.
2012: Obvious Obama (Troll Paul Vote to help further Libertarian anger)
2016: Eh. Ready 4 Hillary... (Enthusiastic Sanders vote, early before all the meanness started)
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« Reply #33 on: June 17, 2016, 11:02:39 AM »

Born in 1997, so....

2000:  Probably Gore just because I remember looking at a Presidents placemat when I was young and I wanted there to be more different names on there, and Bush's father already was President. Tongue
2004:  Kerry for same reason as above
2008:  Obama by dint of being sick of Bush
2012: Romney
2016: Trump
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« Reply #34 on: June 17, 2016, 02:46:44 PM »

In 2004, Kerry. I was an enthusiastic Kerry supporter and would constantly berate anybody in my HS who supported Bush. I recall a lovely convo when we had a doormat substitute teacher in French class. We were drawing on the board and of course I was being political (drawing Bush bombing everybody in Iraq). I made a comment along the lines of "We shouldn't be sending them [troops] over there, because they're all gonna die". Some girl piped up and said "my brother's over there", to which I responded "well...he's gonna die", since I've never been somebody to back down when whiners want to get attention and try to distract from my absolutism. Then some other girl started getting sassy with me and it almost came to fisticuffs before the teacher jumped in.

LOL. You were one of those people? I knew a Republican version of that in 10th grade. He frequently wore a Nobama shirt and always started conversations with people who didn't even know/care about politics about how great McCain was or how Obama was a Muslim. He was absent the day after the election, which I found amusing. He must have needed to mentally recover from the thrashing.
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« Reply #35 on: June 17, 2016, 03:03:21 PM »

How I would've voted at the time.

2004-2012

Straight Ticket R (with parents directing me)

2014

Governor: Walker (and other R's downballot except AG, where I'd vote L)
House: Ryan

I would not change anything from 2014 now.
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