First Presidential Canidate You Supported

[qwerty]

When I was nine (1996) I supported Bill Clinton. I was young and stupid

[elcorazon]

Jimmy Carter

[Nym90]

Dukakis in 1988.

I remember the 1984 election at age 5, but I wasn't intelligent enough yet to have an opinion of my own on the issues or candidates.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

When I was 7, I was a big Reagan man.

I was young and stupid.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Gore in 2000, and I was not young and stupid, I would support him if he ran this year.  

[Keystone Phil]

Bush in 2000. Before the Republican Convention came to Philly that year, I knew very little about politics. The 2000 election changed that.

[Vincent]

Dole in 96, Ive shifted a bit to the left since then.

[PBrunsel]

I supported Steve Forbes for the 1996 Republican Nomination, say what you want about that.

[NYGOP]

Bush in 92'. Now that was heartbreaking.

[WalterMitty]

ronald reagan--1984.  i remember the mock election in our second grade classroom and only one kid voted for mondale.

my first vote was bob dole in 96.

[qwerty]

In eighth grade we did a mock election for the entire middle school, and I was in charge of it.

A few ballots from the Al Gore pile accidentally fell in the trash...

[12th Doctor]

George H. W. Bush

[Dr. Cynic]

I remember very little of 1992, but I remember watching the returns of that year. The first candidate I actively supported was Bill Clinton in 1996, when I was eight.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

First real presidential election I was involved in was the 1984 election.  Since Reagan was a shoe in, I went to the Democratic precinct caucuses that year.  I ended up becoming an uncommitted delegate to to the county convention.  The county convention was supposed to be a one-evening affair starting at 7pm.  When I left at 11pm there was no indication of when the tedium would end, so I left.  If I had stayed I probebly would have ended up committing to Gore as the best alternative to Mondale, so tedium saved me from making that mistake.  Will Rodgers was absolutely correct about the Democrats.  General election saw me voting for Reagan.

 In '88 if I could have split parties on the P and VP ballots I would have picked Bentsen/Bush (but not Bush/Bentsen)  I can't recall who I actially ended up voting for that year. There wasn't really any candidate that I either hated or loved enough to have made a memorable impression on me until the 2000 election.

At the start of 2000 I knew one thing with absolute certainty, I was not voting for Gore, no way, no how.  He lost absolutely any chance of my supporting him when in the aftermath of the trumped-up impeachment fiasco, he called Clinton the greatest president of all time.  That showed an excess of either ass-kissing or bad judgement on his part.  Showing some support was understandable and to be expected, but he went over the top.  Had Bradley still had a chance by the time the SC Republican primary came, I would have voted for him so as to do as much as possible to keep Gore from winning, but by the time the Republican primary came, it looked like Gore would be the Democratic nominee, and I definitely did not want the pleasure of going to another Democratic caucus, so I voted for McCain in the primary.  It wasn't until about a week beore the General election that I finally decided to vote for Nader instead of Bush in 2000, more because I hoped to help a third party, any third party, reach the 5% figure for Federal funds than any other reason.

[badnarikin04]

In 2000, when I wasn't familiar with the Libertarian platform, I actually supported Nader. I was very uninformed, I just liked the underdog factor.

[ilikeverin]

'96-Clinton

(Because my mom liked him )

[Schmitz in 1972]

The first election I remember was '96, where I supported Dole solely because my parents supported him. My first grade class held a mock election and Clinton won chiefly because of incumbency.

In 2000 I supported Bush. The school had a mock election, but before I could find out the results my family headed out of town and didn't return until the night of the election. As we headed out of town I made the ironic comment "I'll know the winner of the real election before I know the winner of the school's mock election". Nothing could have been farther from the truth.

[qwerty]

I supported Clinton mostly because my parents were all for Dole. I remember my dad got a yard sign that said "Dole-Kemp '96".

It used to disappear all the time ;-)

[ilikeverin]

In 1998, there was a mock election for Governor, and Jesse (Ventura) won by something like 22 votes.  Apparantly his ads were really funny, but I never saw any of them

[PBrunsel]

At my school in 2002 there was a mock election for Governor of Iowa (like Verin's 1998 Mock Election for Governor) and Vilasack won in a landslide. I voted for Doug Gross and actively campaigned for him. The "Skaters" who I can persuade quite easily all voted for Gross due to my arguments and his funny last name.

[Keystone Phil]

Since everyone seems to be discussing mock elections I'll discuss one (and I believe the only one) my grade school held while I was there...

It was 1999. Philadelphia was in the middle of a close Mayoral race between Sam Katz and John Street (most of you know about the Katz-Street race from last year...I won't even get into that embarressment...) My social studies class was split up into groups and each group had to make a sign for a candidate. My group was assigned to make a Katz sign. I was happy because I knew that 1) my parents supported him and 2) he was a Republican (before '99 I knew nothing about politics. Nothing at all.) We made the signs and had the mock election. One kid said he was voting for John Street because they both had the same first name. Really smart isn't it? Anyway, Katz won in a landslide (but lost the actual election by 2 points) and to this day I have never had the opportunity to vote in a mock election. Maybe this year...

[7,052,770]

In 1992 i supported clinton, and also in 1996, but the first time I ever really understood the issues and all was in 2000, when I gore.

My school held a mock eleciton in 2000, with about 70-25 for Bush, with the others going to Harry Browne because of his pro-marijuana.  

[badnarikin04]

I really hate political education and all it's mock activities because it TOTALLY OMITS third parties.

But that'll change once I tear up the room with all my libertarian glory in the class debates.

[Josh/Devilman88]

96- dole.. i was like 7 or so... running around my daycare yelling" GO DOLE, DOWN WITH CLINTON"

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

I guess Dukakis in 1988...but just because he was a Democrat and I knew the Democrats were the "good guys".   The first candidate I supported while closely following the race was Paul Tsongas in 1991-92.