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« Reply #25 on: August 09, 2017, 04:37:14 PM »

My earliest memory is my dad tearing up a Bush 2000 sign somebody put in our yard while we were out of town. I was three and it's been a main passion ever since.
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« Reply #26 on: August 09, 2017, 05:09:49 PM »

When I learned about Abraham Lincoln and George Washington in Kindergarten (in 1994).  It didn't take me long to then learn all the presidents, and I was glued to the TV during Richard Nixon's funeral.
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« Reply #27 on: August 09, 2017, 05:18:27 PM »

Around age 5. I remember this event as if it happened yesterday. I was watching the election returns with my parents in the 1956 General Election, and asked why Eisenhower was smiling about his victory, when per what my parents told me, it was a done deal before the election that he would trounce Stevenson (no I don't remember my parents using the exact word "trounce"). Why smile about something you already knew was going to happen, was what was in my five year old brain. You only smile for unexpected pleasant surprises, or at least good outcomes that are in substantial doubt,  was my thinking. Yeah, by age five I had already decided that I wanted to be a lawyer. I really enjoyed arguing with my mother about everything - herself a very litigious and opinionated and political lady. Smiley
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« Reply #28 on: August 10, 2017, 11:06:14 AM »

Probably when I was around 13
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« Reply #29 on: August 10, 2017, 11:08:27 AM »

When this man was elected



Best President of my lifetime so far.  My King is not alive, sadly.  Cry
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« Reply #30 on: August 11, 2017, 10:14:48 PM »

2012. Unfortunately I didn't start paying attention until the primaries were wrapped up - I missed out on a lot of fun Sad
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« Reply #31 on: August 13, 2017, 02:01:10 PM »

Primaries for 2008 when Obama won the Iowa primary. I would've been 14-15 or so.
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« Reply #32 on: August 13, 2017, 05:15:23 PM »

I decided to google "who will be the next president of america" when I was 14 or something.
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« Reply #33 on: August 13, 2017, 10:28:29 PM »

2013-2014 when everyone was talking about North Korea nuking us.
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« Reply #34 on: August 14, 2017, 09:10:35 AM »

I've always been about twice as interested in our political history than contemporary politics, and that started in about 7th or 8th grade?
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« Reply #35 on: August 14, 2017, 09:30:31 AM »

I've been half interested since the 80s, I don't see that changing.
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« Reply #36 on: August 14, 2017, 07:41:06 PM »

2004 election. I was just a kid, but I liked maps, so I stayed up watching the results for most of the night
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