Your memories of Elections

[Phony Moderate]

The first election i took any interest in (in any country), was the 2004 US Presidential Election. I remember going to my great aunt's 80th Birthday Party on the Saturday before the election, October 30th. The next day on the way back from the place the party was, we stopped off for a meal on the motorway, and i asked my dad "So who do you want to win the election in America? I hope Bush loses." He replyed with "Yeah, but i'm not sure about the other guy, Kerry." Then at school on Monday, we were asked to write a fake newspaper article, and i wrote one with the headline "Bush wins Election" and i wrote stuff like "Some of the poorer states like Mississippi will support Kerry". This was because i had seen BBC News reports showing poor black people in that state, saying they wanted Bush out. Then the next morning i got up and the Electoral College count was "Bush 249, Kerry 242". Then, as i was getting ready to leave for school, Nevada was called for Bush, although i didn;t know it was Nevada at the time, as i didn't know many names of the US States, and i wasn't paying much attention anyway. Then, when i got to school, a couple of people said " Kerry was on 42, Bush was on 49". (Yeah, they got it wrong). Then i said "Kerry conceded 5 votes to Bush". Then, when my dad picked me up from school, i asked who had won, and he said "Kerry's conceded". I was pretty dissapointed, i guess it was because i saw Bush as the "boogey man". Then we went to my mum's cousin's, and she was moaning that Bush was still in.

In 2008, i didn't pay any attention to the campaign until about March, when i saw Hillary campaigning, and i thought it was interesting that a former First Lady was running for President, and then i saw Obama campaigning, and he came across as arrogant for some reason, so i supported Hillary. Then i really started following the campaign after i got internet access at home in April 2008. I supported Obama after he won the nomination.