Mom (Primaries, that I know of, in parenthesis)
1972: (Shirley Chisholm)
1976: Unknown
1980: John B. Anderson (Bob Dole)
1984: Ronald Reagan
1988: George H.W. Bush
1992: Bill Clinton
1996: Bob Dole (Bob Dole)
2000: George W. Bush
2004: George W. Bush
2008: John McCain (Barack Obama)
I assume there's a story behind this.
Unaffiliated, couldn't vote in Republican primaries in CA. Had she been able to, she probably would have voted for McCain. She wasn't in on that "Operation Chaos" bull, she and I liked Obama and both considered voting for him in the general, especially after the Palin pick.