Presidential election memories

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2004(Age 7): I was for Bush because he was the President, he seemed cool and in my 2nd grade's class mock election Bush won like over 80% of the vote cause we really didnt know who Kerry was and since we were in 2nd grade we supported Bush mainly cause he was the President.

2008 Primaries(Age 10/11): I was for Obama but Hillary won the primary vote cause all the girls voted for Hillary while all the boys were divided between Obama and McCain. I was for Obama cause he seemed cool on tv and I remember by dad explained to me the primaries are the election equivalent of the Western and Eastern Conference Playoffs and just like the winner of the Winner Conference playoffs and Eastern Conference playoffs play each other in the finals the winner of the Republican and Democratic primaries face each other in the main election.


2008 General(Age 11): I was for Obama and he did win my 6th-grade Hummanites Mock Election but I liked McCain too. On election night I remember I was happy when Obama won .

2012 General(Age 15): I was strongly for Romney cause I liked his economic plans better and didnt think Obama had done a good job and the debates made me like Romney even more. Obama won the 10th grade humanities mock election although the gender gap was pretty large(with slightly most of the boys being for Romney and all the girls being for Obama) . I had made my first election prediction which I had Obama winning but Romney wining the popular vote so I kinda expected some part of how disappointing the 2012 election night was

2016 primaries(Age 18/19): I was for Walker in the first half of 2015 but from the second half of 2015 on I was strongly for Kasich but by super tuesday while I still was for Kasich is was rooting for different candidates in each state to ensure a contested convention .

2016 election(Age 19) : I expected Hillary to win but my confidence on Hillary chances were dropping the last week but I remember on election night seeing shocked when Virginia seemed to be going Trump's way for a long while, him ahead in Florida. The moment I started to think Trump was the favorite was when Ohio was called so early in the night, and then after Florida was called I basically expected Trump to win