Who was old enough to vote for Jimmy Carter

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This was my first presidential election and the last time that Texas went for a Democrat

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[Tree Lady]

1. My first vote I was 20

Happy to vote for him.

[Laffy Kat]

119. Mine, too!

I've always been proud of that.

[maveric]

2. My first election. 20 years old.

Voted for Jimmy.

[MineralMan]

3. I was and I did.

[unweird]

7. Me Too

[DENVERPOPS]

55. Hey MM

do you recall the battle, and the dates, when we had to fight to change the voting age to 18 vs 21????????????

There was a national wave of demonstrations re: if we are old enough at the age of eighteen to go fight for our nation, it is only fair that we are allowed to vote.

It seems that I recall not being able to vote during an election, just before they lowered the age we could vote.........

[LeftInTX]

97. I was a sophomore in HS in the fall of 1971 when we learned about it. We all thought it was "new news"

We were all excited. It's hard to believe it was ratified in July a few months before school had started. I remember where I was when I found out. (In the stairwell). We were all excited and were going "yipee" That's funny how I thought it was "new news". It's funny how I never picked up from TV or anything that this had happened a few months earlier. It's funny how many classmates and I thought this was "new".

We also all knew that the drinking age was gonna be lowered. Maybe we were even more excited about that than voting. LOL

[DENVERPOPS]

131. I was a senior in '67..........

It was a horrific time for inequities and injustices.......

The whole war was engineered to give the Military Industrial Complex an un-fathomable amount of profits....period.......

There was a massive drafting of 18Yo's to be sent to VietNam.........If you tried to enlist, to avoid being drafted, you couldn't get into the Air Force or Navy, only the Marines or Army......All the rich kids in our school were able to go to college, and they were exempted from the draft until they graduated........Of course, most of them went into the National Guard or Reserves after they graduated, and neither group was usually called up to go to Nam........

A huge movement was launched to lower the voting age.....and was finally won, and it dropped from 21 to 18.

The lowering of the age to drink in Colorado was only for 3.2 beer.............

Then in 1979 I watched HWBush and Cheney commit Treason to get Reagan installed as President........I have been seriously involved in watching everything political ever since..........

When I think about the title of a book written about the last 45+ years, it would be; WHILE THE NATION SLEPT

[ALBliberal]

4. My first vote was for Carter in 1980 when I was 18

It’s a point of pride for me.

[debsy]

106. Same for me - I turned 18 in September, 1980

I was very proud to have voted for Carter and not Reagan.

[ALBliberal]

123. 18 the previous November

Yes having that first presidential vote cast for such a special person has always meant a lot to me. God bless him.

[GoCubsGo]

143. Same here, although I was a few months short of 20.

[Jokerman]

5. I turned 18 in 1980.

My first straight-ticket vote had Jimmy Carter at the top and my mother as candidate for Clerk-Treasurer.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

6. My first presidential vote

I was 21.

[mcar]

8. I missed being able to vote for him the first time by one month

Voted for him on his second run, my first Presidential vote. Have voted for the D nominee every time since.

[Bundbuster]

9. I was and did twice

When RayGun beat this great American in the 1980 landslide I exited American society for 10 years, ashamed and appalled beyond repair.

[IA8IT]

154. Same story and feelings. RayGun's re-election I realized just voting wasn't enough....Get Active!!!

and the fact tRump isn't in prison for treason and is the darling of millions of Americans makes my head explode

[dweller]

10. raising hand

My 1st Dem victory vote (McGovern in ‘72 😟 )

✌🏻

[BadgerMom]

80. My experience as well.

[PCIntern]

11. Yup.

In Dental School. I think virtually my entire class voted for him with a few “typical” exceptions.

[Ping Tung]

12. I was 32 in '76 and voted for Jerry Brown in the primary.

I voted for Carter in the general and I now consider him to have been the best president in my lifetime and the most decent president in our history.

[tetedur]

13. Still very proud of my first vote at 18.

[gademocrat7]

14. I was 26

The Peanut Brigade here in Georgia worked very hard to get the vote out for President Carter.

[Doc Sportello]

15. My second presidential vote

First was proudly for George McGovern. Just as proud to vote for Jimmy Carter.

[moondust]

16. I did, proudly.

But I then made the mistake of assuming the U.S. electorate had recognized and rejected political corruption after the Nixon debacle. In fact it only got worse.

The presidency of Ronald Reagan was marked by numerous scandals, resulting in the investigation, indictment or conviction of over 138 administration officials, the largest number for any president of the United States.
~
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandals_of_the_Ronald_Reagan_administration

They re-elected that in a 49-state landslide.

And look at 'em now.



I've wondered if they didn't learn from Nixon that they can go ahead and do whatever they feel they need to do to get elected and if it turns out to be illegal or corrupt they can just use the Presidential pardon to get away with it.

[Tickle]

17. My first time voting

I remember it well

[Wednesdays]

18. I was 17 on Election Day in 1976, so not the first one

But I definitely voted for him in 1980.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

19. I did in 1976 snd 1980.

Proud of my vote as well.

[young_at_heart]

20. My fifth time to vote

My first was Kennedy.....I was a student at UCSB.

[chowder66]

21. I was 10 so not me. But I would have if I could have voted. I liked him a lot.

[yellowdogintexas]

22. I am old enough to have voted for Hubert Humphrey in 1968

I should add that I lived in Kentucky therefore I could vote at age 18.

[LeftInTX]

23. Me, but I voted for Ford. However, I ran and voted for Carter in 1980

Reagan made me realize that Barry Goldwater was alive and well and very dangerous!

I was a few days short of 20 and pretty naive in 1976 and didn't want a Southern Baptist as president. Guess I was kinda prejudiced. (I lived in Wisconsin at the time)

[Susan Calvin]

24. .

[usaf-vet]

25. It wasn't my first. But it is one that I would never regret. A fine, honorable human being. Who gave and gave to....

.... to his community, country, and world.

[Danmel]

26. Not in 76, but in 80

Was pretty disappointing.
I didn't vote for a winning presidential candidate till I was 32, for Clinton

[Mosby]

162. Same here.

Nt.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

27. No, but I wrote to President Ford and got a picture in 4th grade.

[Retrograde]

28. Voted for him in 1976 but not 1980

1976 was my first vote in California - we had moved there that summer - and I was surprised that my polling place was in someone's garage. I had intended to vote for him again in 1980, but by the time I left work at 5 he had already conceded. My vote went to the independent, John Anderson (who got points for doing an actual whistle-stop tour on the Peninsula: the only time a presidential candidate came to my town and got to be seen by regular people, IIRC)

[peppertree]

135. Great anecdote. Famously, Tip O'Neill begged him to wait a couple of hours for that very reason

A number of California congressmen - among them his good friend, DCCC chief Jim Corman (San Fernando Valley) - were, as he put it, "fighting for their lives," and O'Neill was afraid that Dem-leaning voters would go home upon hearing of his concession.

Tip was furious - and he was right: it went just as bad as he feared for western Democrats, including Corman.

And that was one of Carter's big shortcomings (as well as virtues): that he seldom gave the politics of his decisions much thought, if thought they were necessary.

[a kennedy]

29. I did, was born in 1950, was 18 in 1968. Damn I'm old.

[calguy]

34. Oh, c'mon... you're only the same age as me

We're still in our prime senior years.

[a kennedy]

43. Right, and I do like the sound of that......"prime senior years"

[mackdaddy]

30. Voted for Carter in 1976. I had just turned 19 and it was my first presidential election.

Voted for him in 1980 also but the Iranian hostage crisis and Regan/Bush making a deal to keep the hostages (per the former Iranian president) helped throw the election.

Republicans always cheat.

[murielm99]

31. I voted for him.

[GP6971]

32. Voted for him in 76 & 80.

[Boomerproud]

35. Same here. I was 20.

My primary vote in 76 went to Jerry Brown. Proud of my support of Jimmy Carter.

[-misanthroptimist]

33. It was my first Presidential election.

I was 19 and more or less a Rockefeller Republican (minus the drug hysteria). So, I voted for Ford in 1976.

In 1980, I voted for John Andersen.

So, much to my shame, one of the finest men who has ever lived never received a vote from me.

[kskiska]

36. I voted for LBJ in 1964.

Voting age was 21 in those days.

[Glorfindel]

71. It was 18 here in Georgia. I got to vote for LBJ in 64 because of that!

[brer cat]

161. Me too.

[BoomaofBandM]

37. 18 years old and first time voter. Really liked Jimmy Carter.

[Emile]

38. He got my vote!

[relayerbob]

39. I had just turned 18 in 1976, and Jimmy was my first vote!

[bluescribbler]

40. My first vote

I voted for Shirley Chisholm in the 1972 Presidential Primary.

[KT2000]

41. Yes!

My most profound appreciation was how he responded to the oil embargo. He tried to make us less oil dependent and they turned on him with ridicule. I loved his malaise in America speech too - more ridicule from the talking heads.

[haele]

42. My first presidential election was 1980.

I was in the military and voted for Carter. Lots of military folks I knew did, because we recognized Reagan as a fraud.

Haele

[Magoo48]

44. Me. I'd just turned 24.

[Trueblue1968]

45. I was born on 1950, george mcgovern r war first person i voted for

[TheRickles]

46. McGovern was my first, but I also gladly voted for Jimmy.

[Climate Crusader]

47. I was 8 months too young, buyt it was the first campaign I volunteered for.

Newly moved from Florida to South Carolina and got involved with the local Democrats immediately!

[onethatcares]

48. me too

never have I voted for the other party, no matter the election

[BlueTexasMan]

49. I did

He had had a UFO sighting and said he would tell us what was going on. He didn't. They still haven't. Makes you wonder.

[Turbineguy]

50. My first election.

I voted for Carter and never regretted it.

[KS Toronado]

51. Fresh out of the service and finally started to take an interest in politics

He got my vote. May he see Biden receive a HUGE BLUE WAVE

[JustAnotherGen]

52. I was little girl!

When we came back to the states in 1978 - I had this brief period of my dad not screaming at the nightly news for two years.

After that? A solid 4 years of "This wouldn't be happening if Carter was President"

Then - another 4 years of ape shit ballistic because of Reagan.

How different my childhood would have been if people hadn't fallen for Reagan's schtick in 1980.

[Deuxcents]

53. Proud to say I voted for him twice.

[Glorfindel]

54. Yes. I also voted for him for Governor of Georgia.

My first vote for President was LBJ in 1964. I was 19.

[chillfactor]

56. I am really old...

Carter was the third presidential election I voted in.

[mtngirl47]

57. First Presidential Election for me was 1976

I had just turned 18 the week before, but I had registered early enough...and actually had to vote absentee from my home state instead of Georgia where I was going to college.

Also voted for President Carter in 1980.

Never voted for a Republican---even for dog catcher.

[badhair77]

58. My first Presidential vote. I was 24.

Couldn’t vote in 72 because we had to be 21 to vote back then.

[Jeebo]

59. I was 22 in 1972 and voted for George McGovern.

I voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976. I am proud to say that I have never voted for a Republican for president.

-- Ron

[MyOwnPeace]

60. Well, I've got an interesting trail.........

Born and raised in an "R" house, I'd been told we couldn't vote for Kennedy because 'the Pope' would run the country. With THAT background I campaigned for Goldwater in '64 (I TOLD you it was an interesting trail!) ((I remember attending a rally for Goldwater on the PITT campus with Clint Walker (Cheyenne) there speaking for him.
My first 'able-to-vote' was in 1968 and true to family form, I voted for NIXON!
HOWEVER, his Vietnam issues quickly turned me against him and I really worked for McGovern in 1972. After Watergate and Nixon's resignation I pulled out my McGovern pin and added a card behind it saying: "I TOLD YOU SO!"
I voted for Carter in '76 and was proud to have him in the White House. Again, because of issues, I did not support him in 1980. I was truly fearful of RayGun and I loved John Anderson ("between Reagan and Carter is not a choice, it's a dilemma!" ).
All of that being said (confessed!) - it's been ALL DEMS ever since - and always will be!

And YES, Jimmy Carter is a truly great and honorable man.

[lastlib]

61. 1976, my first election.

My freshman year of college. As a political-science class exercise, I attended the county caucus for his candidacy. (Since I wasn't a resident of the county my college was in, I couldn't vote there.) That November, he was the recipient of my first presidential vote.

Again in 1980.

[Upthevibe]

62. LetMyPeopleVote..........

He was my first Presidential vote too...

[DoBW]

63. can't remember it's mostly a blur

I had no principles: my moral compass swung wildly -- but I have come to know harmony in a 2nd life ( except for TSF and his boot lickers) i know Carter was a good soul & i'm happy there's other old farts on here

[ProfessorGAC]

64. My First Presidential Election

I turned 20 about 6 weeks before the election.

[Ocelot II]

65. Me, but my first was George McGovern.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

108. Same!

[Fla Dem]

141. Me too! Registered as soon as I was 18.

[Silver Gaia]

155. Same here.

It felt so very important to vote because we were the first to be able to vote at 18, and we had fought for it. My vote has always been a sacred duty from that time forward and it has always been cast for Democrats.

So, yes, of course I voted for Jimmy Carter. Both times.

[arkielib]

66. My first time to vote. I was 18.

[Ms. Toad]

67. 20. Voted from my college address.

The townspeople were pissed - they assumed any college student voting from their college address was doign so in order to vote to allow alcohol sales within city limits (it was a dry town). I voted from my college address because my vote was more likely to make a difference there, than in my home state. I was right - Ohio went for Carter in '76. Nebraska went for Ford. (And the townspeople were wrong about me, at least, on the other issue: I voted to keep the town dry.)

[mummierose]

68. Me!

[marble falls]

150. What's your favorite Jimmy Carter memory? In my mind I think of his integrity in all things.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

166. Welcome to DU

[TygrBright]

69. I was there. Both times. n/t

[ananda]

70. Me! Hand raised high.

..

[TBF]

72. Nope - too young - but I do remember his election

and also Nixon's resignation. My mom was into politics so we'd talk about stuff like that in the car.

[orleans]

73. election day was my 18th birthday. i voted for carter. nt

[rambler_american]

74. My first vote for president was

Eugene McCarthy in 1968. I'm old AF.

[John Farmer]

75. I was, and did.

I also caught a glimpse of JFK when my mom lifted me up.

[CarolinaNC]

76. Me, me....8 mos. pregnant, got my picture on the newspaper front page yelling "WE NEED JIMMY CARTER"

So young and already an activist .....I kept the article....will have to look for it. I was 19 at the time.

[wryter2000]

77. I was

And did

[Marcus IM]

78. My first vote as an American citizen.

I was young. I felt hope.

Admire him greatly.

[brewens]

79. I am but I voted for Anderson my first time. The election had already been called and I knew he needed

enough votes to qualify for matching campaign funds.

At that time, I thought it smart to encourage third party candidates. I'm not sure that was a good idea.

[bagimin]

81. It was McGovern for us.

how many lives coul have been saved.....

[PJMcK]

82. My first vote!

I was never prouder until I voted for Obama.

[greatauntoftriplets]

83. Carter was my second presidential election.

I stood in line for an hour to vote for him in Chicago. That was the only time I've ever had to wait that long. The fact I lived in a solidly Democratic district probably had something to do with it.

[Golfnbrew]

84. 18 years old

Fresh out of high school, THRILLED to vote for him!

On a side note, the drinking age was dropped to 19 the next year, lucky me, and raised back to 21 when I turned 21.

[twodogsbarking]

85. My best memory is watching him go down Pennsylvania Ave with Roslyn.

Worked like hell in the morning to watch that at a restaurant. Gin and tonic was $.55.
Premium lunch was maybe $1.50. Probably 10% of today's cost. Jimmy will forever be a favorite.

[karynnj]

86. Me - the first time i voted for the winner in the Presidential race

First vote was for McGovern.

[moonscape]

87. I was 26

[gordianot]

88. I just turned 18 and stood in line to be one of the first voters to cast my vote.

I never missed the opportunity to vote in a national election. I voted for a Democratic candidate every time except for Warren Hearnes whom I despised. Much to my regret I voted for John Danforth who eventually led to Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court. My sole vote for any Republican was a youthful mistake. I have never regretted any vote for a Democratic candidate starting with Carter.

[Hassler]

89. My first vote was for Carter

[Silent3]

90. I'm sad to admit that Carter was the first President I *could* have voted for, but I didn't understand...

...the voter registration process well enough to be ready to vote in that election. I turned 18 the month before his second run for the Presidency. I definitely couldn't have voted for Carter in 1976.

[NoMoreRepugs]

91. Heck yes.

[Emile]

92. Most decent man I ever voted for.

[Pas-de-Calais]

93. 1st POTUS I worked for as a Federal employee

Best one until OBama

[kellytore]

94. Not only did I vote for him in 1976

I still have my George's driver's license from 1973 with his autograph as governor of the state.

[Omaha Steve]

95. The 1976 United States presidential election was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2

Jimmy beat Ford. I was 19 when I voted the first time for Jimmy.

[barbtries]

96. he was my first vote for president as well.

was 17 in 1972 and I so did not want nixon.

[Jacson6]

98. Well I was old enough to vote in my sixth grade class for him.

My parents & I all loved Jimmy, Rosalyn & Brother Billy.

[AllaN01Bear]

99. me.

i remember them saying . jimmy who? that old peanut farmer.

[SimplyHadEnough]

100. Voted

Me too, I was 25yr's old

[byronius]

101. My first vote.

[fargone]

102. Hell, I voted for Gene Mccarthy and Hubert Humphry

[mac56]

103. Me

[DinahMoeHum]

104. My first vote for a POTUS was when I was 20

and it was for Jimmy Carter.

[JohnnyLib2]

105. I did. First was JFK.

[dmr]

107. I voted for that wonderful man.

I voted when I was 20 back in '72.

[irisblue]

109. My first vote for POTUS

[jayschool2013]

110. I was in 1980

And I didn't. I stupidly voted for John Anderson.

I was an idiot.

[peppertree]

116. Your heart was in the right place

As you no doubt recall, the decision wasn't as clear-cut back then as it would be now in retrospect.

Carter had done of lot good, a lot of heavy lifting - but also made some mistakes in his last year, such as the enactment of selective service (seen by many young people as a veiled draft) and the March 1980 credit controls (which popped the OPEC price bubble - but pushed the economy into a deep recession).

But as you know, that's how he was: he never let politics get in the way of what he felt - right or wrong - needed to be done. Even in an election year!

1980 was, as he put it, "the worst year of my life."

[TxGuitar]

112. Mrs TxGuitar

was able to vote for him in 76 and 80. Alas, I was just a mere lad at the time of both elections.

[myohmy2]

113. yep...

...

[VGNonly]

114. My first presidential election in 76

was for Jimmy. I was 19, solid democrat ever since.

A side note, I never had to register for the draft. It was abolished March 1st 1975. I wasn't 18 until Sept. My buddy was born in February, he had to register. It started again in January 1st 1960 for eighteen year olds.

[peppertree]

115. I was a toddler in the Carter years - and in Argentina. But I can say this:

The fascist dictatorship in power at the time - and nearly all their supporters and apologists at the time - hated Jimmy Carter.

Why? Mainly because Carter and his Secretary of State, Cy Vance, did everything they could to persuade and pressure the dictatorship to stop "disappearing" people.

His every stumble - including the one he had while jogging in '79 - was gloated at in the local media. And his defeat was met with jubilation in right-wing circles, with parties held in Reagan's honor at the mansions of some of the well-to-do.

And then, just two months after Carter left office, Argentina collapsed.

The massive foreign debt bubble, mostly taken on to finance elites' mass dollarizing and offshoring of assets, imploded the economy - as did the dictatorship's "remedies" (which - like Bush in '08 - basically punished society at large for the crisis elites had caused).

Argentina never fully recovered (least of all now - with Trump's mini-me, Milei, wrecking the little that still worked for them).

[ArnoldLayne]

117. I was 18 years old when I voted for Jimmy Carter.

[Charlie Chapulin]

118. Much to my chagrin...

…the first election I voted in was 1980. I was just shy of turning 20. I knew I couldn’t vote for Reagan. And I was so disgusted with the “Iran Hostage Crisis,” as it was called at the time, that I voted for John Anderson. Learned a big lesson there and wish I could have that one back. Sorry, Jimmy.
I’ve often wondered what the world might look like had he and Gorbachev been in power at the same time, instead of the Gipper.

[Old Crank]

120. I was in the Air Force

and voted for him from Crete.

When I returned Stateside I got to visit Plains georgia with my wife and a friend we were stationed with previously.

[Skittles]

126. I was in the Air Force too back then

[spanone]

121. 👍🏼

[WestMichRad]

122. That was my first presidential election

Didn’t see the light about rampant republican disinformation until a few years later. Better a bit late than never!

[PufPuf23]

124. First POTUS vote was McGovern in 1972

Voted Carter in 76 and 80.

Register GOP to vote for Anderson in CA GOP primary to slow Nixon Reagan. Only non-Democratic vote ever made and knew would vote Democratic in actual election.

Voted Brown in 1980 primary and Carter for POTUS.

Was a Fed employee 1969 (career status 73) to 1985 with US Forest Service. After a Cal BS, Feds paid me to go to two programs that totaled 30 units of grad credit but owed the agency 6 years or had to pay back the cost. Under Reagan, the end of 6 years was quit date. The change in agency was massive and Reagan proceeded to break the USFS planning system and enrich the timber industry. A majority of USFS employees continued to whistle while they worked; many of the managers hired and educated with veteran benefits were resistant to the modernization of environmental laws and working with women and minorities. Reagan systematically deconstructed what had been birthed under Nixon and brought to maturity under POTUS Carter. What occurred became even more apparent to me over the years only to mostly disappear down the memory hole.

POTUS Carter has the best and most enduring heart of any POTUS in my dwindling life.

[Skittles]

125. me

I was in the military - I didn't vote because I had not become politically aware yet

[wendyb-NC]

127. My vote for Jimmy was the second time I voted for a president.

I voted for George McGovern in 1972, when I was 18. That was the year the voting age was changed to 18.

[livetohike]

128. My second Presidential vote. I turned 19 in July 1971

right after 18 year olds got the right to vote 🙂.

[appmanga]

129. The 1980 Presidential Election...

...was my first one. I voted for John Anderson, so I understand the disaffection of today's young people when it comes to the major party candidates, and it's the reason I try to persuade them not to waste their vote like I did. I realized a long time ago this country didn't deserve the brilliant and moral visionary President Carter turned out to be. I also realized how he was the person we as a country needed, but could never be wise enough to heed and support.

[doc03]

130. He may have been my first vote in 76. I fell for Reagan's bs in 80. The only other time

I voted for a Republican was for McCain in the primary, then dumped him after he picked Caribou Barbie.

[peppertree]

137. Caribou Barbie!

That was one pig they couldn't disguise with lipstick.

[demosincebirth]

132. My first vote was for JFK.

[walkingman]

133. Proud to have voted for Carter - a truly honorable man.

[lanlady]

134. I proudly voted for him in 1976 and 1980

I hated when that doddering fool Reagan defeated him. I actually left the country in 1981 and did not return until Clinton's first term in office.

[LoisB]

136. My first Presidential vote was for Hubert Humphrey in 1968. At the time, one had to be 21 to vote.

Primary vote was for RFK (the real one).

[Beausoleil]

138. My first presidential election

And my vote went to Jimmy Carter.

[Beausoleil]

139. My first presidential election was 1976

And my vote went to Jimmy Carter.

[Raine]

140. I voted for Ford first time Carter ran then voted for Carter the next time.

I got to shake Carter's hand when he had a town hall meeting in my city. A moment I'll always remember. ❤️

[Different Drummer]

142. I wasn't old enough in 1976.

I turned 18 in 1979 and voted for President Carter in the 1980 election. The fact that he was a fellow Georgian only slightly influenced me.

[MaryMagdaline]

144. Voted for Jimmy in 1980. Just missed the cutoff in 1976

Turned 18 in January 1977. I have never regretted my vote.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

145. I was well old enough to vote for Pres. J. Carter and I did,

my very first ever vote was in '68, I had turned 21 in Sept. of that year and voted for H. Humphrey, unfortunately, he lost to R. Nixon and the rest is history.

[Crunchy Frog]

146. Didn't turn 18 until January 1981

so missed being able to vote for him by a few months.

My 1st vote was for Mondale.

[TomSlick]

147. My first vote.

[pfitz59]

148. My first Presidential election

I was 21.

[electric_blue68]

149. My first Presidential was for McGovern [ : ( ]. Yes, I Voted for Carter since I'm a Democrat

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[LLC]

151. My first Presidential election

Was this!
I was and still am proud to have voted for Jimmy Carter!

[samnsara]

152. wasnt my first vote...but i regretfully voted for ford

....i was a fierce indy until Newt G.

[Evolve Dammit]

153. Even had a Billy Beer 😫

[lark]

156. It was my first vote too. I was so excited to be able to vote for this good man.

[nitpicked]

157. 1976 was my first presidential vote

But not my first vote (there was a city election before then).

[DFW]

158. My age is aged

Carter was my second presidential vote. My first was for George McGovern.

I was one for five until Bill Clinton showed up in the 1992 primary season.

[Rhiannon12866]

159. Jimmy Carter was the very first candidate I paid attention to and really liked!

And I still feel the same way!

[jojog]

160. I did. Also voted for Al Gore Jr.

It was Al's first campaign for house in 4th District Tenn.

[UpInArms]

163. My first presidential vote

At the age of 19

[H2O Man]

164. I voted for him.

(recommended)

One of the best presidents of my lifetime.

[RobinA]

165. I Was

I voted for Ford. I was never a Carter as president fan. I like the guy, but not as president. I did vote for him in '80, however.