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YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  *flailing of Kermit arms*

Now all he has to do is fix everything.

I do hopefully feel it's the very beginning of a new era in American politics and culture.  Dare to dream...
 
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nepenthe01 posted this and I though it was neato:

Here's an interesting topic:

What's the earliest political event or significant piece of news you can remember?

Who is the first president you remember?

What's the first election series that you became aware of?

What's the first election you voted in?

1. The aftermath of Nixon's impeachment.  I remember asking my mother what impeachment meant, because it sounded kind of good, like peaches.  It would be fair to say that I has zero grasp of the issues at that time.  I do remember not being able to understand how the president who was supposed to be good all the time could do something bad.  Ah, innocent childhood.

2. Well, I guess that would be Nixon.  But by the time I understood really what a president was, it would have been Gerald Ford.

3. Ford and Carter--our elementary school had a mock election, which for kids came down to the clumsy guy who tripped over everything or the guy with the big cheesy grin who liked peanuts.

4. Dukakis against the patriarch of the Bush dynasty.  I voted by absentee ballot from Chicago.