Which was the first Presidential Election you remember?

[America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗]

I vaguely remember 2000. I was alive for '96 but too young to remember it.

[bagelman]

I thought Bush II was the more attractive candidate in 2000, so I kinda preferred him. Wasn't long before I turned against him.

[Frodo]

[SATW]

The 2000 2008 election was the first I remembered.

2004 2012 was the first one I watched on election night.

2008 2016 was the first one I had a clear understanding of all candidates and policies.

Since these parameters are interesting

Thanks for making me feel old! hahaha

[HillGoose]

2004, I was 8, my dad was so supportive of Bush that we weren't allowed to buy Heinz ketchup lol

[LCSPopTart]

Allegedly I Cried when Barack became president. Oh how the times have changed.
I also apparently liked Rick Santorum (LOL) Ron Paul, and Obama in 2012.
2016 was the first time I ever actually knew what any of the candidates stood for.

[SWE]

In 2004 I knew that an election was going on, and was sad that Bush won because I thought it was unfair because he already got to be president.

2008 was the first one I took an active interest in, although I wasn't exactly well informed. I was horrified when Obama won because I thought he would ban guns and Christianity.

2012 was the first time I was reasonably well informed to what was happening.

2016 was the first primary I followed.

[Free Bird]

I was very little during 2000 so I don't remember it.

I was aware 2004 was going on (I voted for Kerry on Nick.com because he was the left button, and that was the correct direction to point in a Winnie the Pooh DVD game)

I kinda sorta followed 2008, moreso in the general. I knew McCain would be one of the candidates, and that Obama was slugging it out with Hillary (it was the first time I had heard of her, BTW), but that was it. I knew it was election day and such, since we followed it through Scholastic News in school, but I thought that McCain was a shoo-in early in the night because he had an early electoral lead, and that everything was decided at 8 PM, so I was freaked out when Obama won because I thought he was going to ban guns. Fun fact, he was actually the first candidate I ever supported, but I switched to McCain in like mid-September because all of my class was voting Obama in our mock election for Scholastic and I wanted to be different. I remember a kindergarten teacher forcing a kid's face in place so that it would watch the giant screen in the gym that doubled as the auditorium as we watched the inauguration. I also remember watching Ted Kennedy collapse once we got back to the classroom and continued watching on our own projector, so I was sad when he died on my first day of fifth grade 8 months later.

2012 was when I knew every candidate in the primaries and a few vague policy positions. Thing is, I followed the primaries only as they happened. I didn't know what was up next. I really paid attention to the swing states in the general, and figured Romney had it locked down, if only narrowly. Probably because I had Hannity on in my bedroom every night telling me how skewed the polls were lol.

2016 was really the first where I knew every little facet of what was happening and made actual serious predictions as it went on.

[fluffypanther19]

I vaguely remember 2004

[Senator-elect Spark]

2008. I was well too young in 2000 and 2004 to recall much of anything.