Regardless of where you stand now in terms of politics or what country you are from I am curious. Who was your first vote?? I have been in the poltical scene now for quite some time. Although I havesome  memories of politics in Canada and Americas 2004 vote when I was 10, I only got into it when i was about 13/14. When I was 10 I am unsure if the person I supported was the person i actually wanted to, or just did because of parental influence. So I will go with when I was old enough to make up my own mind. In 2008.  If I was old enough in 2008 I would have voted for Stephen Harper, and in 2015 When I could vote I went for Justin Trudeau. Now, I am curious. Who was your first ?

My first vote was Ronald Reagan.  So much was different in 1980.


Conform and be dull. —James Frank Dobie, The Voice of the Coyote

My first vote was for Ronald Reagan also

  Richard M. Nixon in 1972. This was the first General Election that the 18 to 21 year-olds by Amendment XXVI ratified on July 1, 1971 got to vote. I registered on board ship. I voted in all of the elections, even the city charter ones since.

Joelene

Quote from: Joelene9 on March 19, 2017, 08:17:43 PM
  Richard M. Nixon in 1972. This was the first General Election that the 18 to 21 year-olds by Amendment XXVI ratified on July 1, 1971 got to vote. I registered on board ship. I voted in all of the elections, even the city charter ones since.

Joelene

Cool . Personally I would have been a huge McGovern supporter but to each their own !!

I was from California so voting for Reagan would have killed me after watching him trash the State. Carter was such a lovely man but had zero business in politics as he proved by running the Country into the ground. I was left with John B. Anderson whom I held my nose and pulled the level for. What crappy times.

My first vote was for Bush Senior in 1992. Totally different politics back then. In 1996, I voted for Clinton.

Richard Nixon in 1968 when I was 19.  Prior to the 26th Amendment that Jolene mentioned, only two states, Georgia (in 1943) and Kentucky (in 1955) allowed 18 year old voting.  I voted by absentee ballot from boot camp.

Rob Muldoon Prime minster  for 10 years and this was his last term, first election in New Zealand I was old enough to vote in

Bob Hawke in 1987. In those days, the Australian Labor Party were a force to be reckoned with, having strong leadership combined with good, clear and sensible policies. Wish I could say the same about them these days.

Walter Mondale

I believe my first federal Canadian vote was in 1984 for a Liberal MP. John Turner was the leader of the Liberals at that time.   Unfortunately Brian Mulroney and the Progressive Conservatives won in a landslide.

Quote from: Paige on March 20, 2017, 12:53:24 PM
I believe my first federal Canadian vote was in 1984 for a Liberal MP. John Turner was the leader of the Liberals at that time.   Unfortunately Brian Mulroney and the Progressive Conservatives won in a landslide.

Hey a Canadian!! Just like me. Wasnt Mulroney a PC, as in the party of Joe Clark, a progressive?? wasnt that a good thing? All I know is when I got into polticis around 2008 I was a die hard Harper fan at that time, though too young to vote. In 2015 at my first Chance I went for Trudeau.

I just missed the 2000 election, so my first vote was for John Kerry in 2004.

Quote from: SailorMars1994 on March 20, 2017, 01:15:02 PM
Hey a Canadian!! Just like me. Wasnt Mulroney a PC, as in the party of Joe Clark, a progressive?? wasnt that a good thing? All I know is when I got into polticis around 2008 I was a die hard Harper fan at that time, though too young to vote. In 2015 at my first Chance I went for Trudeau.

Hey fellow Canadian,

Mulroney is an interesting case in Canadian politics.  The progressive part of Mulroney showed up from time to time, he actually did a great service in the fight against Apartheid.  He also did some positive things for the environment, like the Acid Rain Treaty but I grew up in small town Ontario and was shocked by what his Free Trade Deal did to small manufacturing communities.  He started the quick decline of Canadian manufacturing.   The small town I lived in must have lost at least 10 factories because of this deal and NAFTA.

But to really understand how sleazy he was you should read this.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2010/05/31/brian_mulroney_acted_inappropriately_in_accepting_cash_inquiry_finds.html

The Harper government let him get away with it and now he's working with Trudeau Jr. to get Trump's favour because Mulroney and Trump are buddies.  Politics is very strange.

Have a nice day,
Paige

1972 R. Nixon

It was for Barack H. Obama in 2012. I was a couple of months into meeting the age requirement.

Bush senior was my first vote and later switched to democrats.

When I became old enough to vote the voting age was 21.  My first election was the Goldwater-Johnson election of 1964 before Viet Nam became a major conflict.  I voted for Goldwater and am certain that if he had been elected Viet Nam would have been a much shorter and decisive conflict.

Since then I have voted for both republicans and democrats.  However, after seeing what spoiled sports the democrats are being following their loss, I don't know if I will ever vote for a democrat in the future.

I have always hoped for the success of our president even though he was not my choice, which has frequently been the result.  The future of our country depends on our unity and support of our freedom, our national concerns, and the success of our elected officials.

Quote from: SailorMars1994 on March 20, 2017, 01:15:02 PMAll I know is when I got into polticis around 2008 I was a die hard Harper fan at that time, though too young to vote.

That's okay, I love you anyway.   

I think my first federal vote would have been the 1974 election, in which I would have voted for the (Pierre) Trudeau Liberals.  I don't recall it specifically.