Obviously, I have only been able to participate in one election (2008) because it was a few months after my 18′th birthday. But I do remember every single one of my “choices” to win most races from 1996.
1996 – Bill Clinton (D) for President. I remember we got a little yellow card in the mail with a little chart, showing where both Clinton and Bob Dole stood on several issues. I remember we talked it over in school. I remember making a little “Clinton/Gore” sign and sticking it in my yard, next to my mom’s rather more professional-looking Dole sign.
2000 – Al Gore (D) for President. To this day I think he would have been the better choice. We needed the war in Afghanistan, NOT the Iraq War. Bush was an idiot who couldn’t properly formulate a sentence. How he won the election is beyond me.
2002 – Robert Ehrlich (R) for Governor of Maryland. I figured our property taxes could be lowered, and our state budget could be restructured so we could have a surplus without even needing the money from the higher taxes.
2004 – John Kerry (D) for President. I hated the war, I hated the government watching everybody and holding suspected “terrorists” without warrants, and I hated George W. Bush. I hated these things so much I overlooked Kerry’s faults. Later I came to support many of the things I hated about Bush, except his “moral” conservatism and of course the Iraq War.
2006 – Martin O’Malley (D) for Governor. After the things I had hoped a Republican could do for Maryland did not occur at all, I began to change my mind. Ehrlich gave the state a massive deficit, and talked about slots as though they were the only solution.
2008 – Barack Obama (D) for President.
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