I remember that election, but I was too young to vote. I remember good old tricky Dick making that ridiculous victory sign with his fingers, even after resigning in disgrace before boarding AirForce One to slink back to the hole he crawled out of.

redemption Democrats had.

But my first voting experience was still very special to me and I have retained that feeling of pride every election since then.

Thanks for starting this thread. Should be interesting.

2004.

I had just graduated high school and enlisted in the Army.

I voted for Bush.

I have yet to forgive myself.

I've voted for democrats in every election since and have never looked back.

Well, you have redeemed yourself! Sin no more and go in Peace!

...voted for President Barack Obama

cant wait to do it again in 11 days....

only 23 btw... thats why my first was 2008

But I lived in Puerto Rico at the time so could not vote for President.

I moved back to the mainland in 1987 and first voted in 1988 (Dukakis-Bush).

Didn't go so well!

1980 voted for President Carter and I was depressed as all hell when Raygun was elected.

I kid you not.

but I was too young to vote. Ended up voting in my first presidential election for Dukakis.

And I would vote for him again.

The one President who actually lowered oil imports rather than just talking about it.

I was eligible in 1972, but didn't register and didn't vote. I wasn't crazy about Nixon, although it's important for all of you too young to remember his time in office, that he was not yet the arch-villain of Watergate that he became a year or so later. Also, compared to Republicans today, he was incredibly liberal. But he was, even then, a paranoid man who suspected everyone of being his enemy, and trusted almost no one.

I couldn't work up any enthusiasm for McGovern, although looking back, I do regret that I didn't vote for him.

(The FIRST time, not the second.)

It was the year I graduated from high school.

Clinton/Gore

Dont stop thinkin bout tomorrow!

Clinton and Gore part II. Such a stress free election. I was 20 and voted absentee in college.

Should have been 1980, but I was too lame to figure out how to do an absentee ballot from college.

2000. I was a freshman in college and participated in the early voting process.

I voted for Gore or at least I think I did. SMH. I voted in Palm Beach County, the home of the butterfly ballot and hanging chads.

I was so excited, he was going to stop the Vietnam war and . . . then Nixon won, spent the night before his election protesting on the Capitol steps - in Topeka! Don't really know what we thought that was going to do