in a few days i get to cast my first vote

[Ava]

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[Duppers]

1. W00T!! and it in the most historic election this country has ever had!

Ck your email, me friend.

:hi:

[Ava]

2. just did, and sent you one back

thanks so much :hug:


and yes, this is an amazing election to take part in! i'm so lucky to have turned 18 in time!

[trof]

3. AWRIGHT! And...ROLL TIDE!

:hug:

[Ava]

14. roll tide indeed!

how've you and the mrs been? :hug:

[TKolmsi]

4. Good times!

[Ava]

15. yup!

:woohoo:

[Ptah]

5. I'm confident you will have better luck than I had with my first presidential vote.

George McGovern.

[Ava]

16. gObama!

:woohoo:

[Turbineguy]

6. Let me guess...

You are voting for McCain/Palin...

:hide:

[Ava]

17. you guessed it

:rofl:

[Aristus]

7. Isn't it exciting?

I'm thrilled for you, Ava. Enjoy!

[Ava]

18. i'm so excited!

:woohoo:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. Yay AVA !!

:bounce:

[Ava]

19. woot!

:woohoo:

[CreekDog]

9. congratulations, and what a first vote to cast!!!

i had to wait until i was 21 to cast my first presidential vote for Bill Clinton and that was exciting --but even though things are less exciting to me in general (now that i'm 37), this vote for Barack, that just floors me, more than the Clinton vote did.

also, i just barely missed voting in 1988 because i was born a month too late. that turns out to be a good thing --i was volunteering for George Bush 1 back then :hide: . a few months of his presidency were very instructive...the Alaska Oil Spill, invasion of Panama, Gulf War and Bush's lack of concern and reaction to the recession that year made me a Democrat for keeps.

i'm glad you had your senses to begin with. bless you. :hi:

[Ava]

20. ha, the universe must've known that you needed a couple more years

:rofl: ;)

[CreekDog]

11. True. But the universe kinda quit halfway thru the job!

:rofl:

[Ava]

27. that's because you were so much work!

:P :rofl:

[SeattleGirl]

10. Are YOU ever coming of age at the right time, Ava!!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[Ava]

21. woohoo!!

:woohoo:

[krispos42]

12. It's an electric experience

You are about to do what over a million of your countrymen, your ancestors and mine, paid for in blood for you to do.

"Stand your ground; don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here" said Captain Parker to his company of militia on a spring morning in April of 1775.

From the few dozen Massachusettes militiamen staring down the world's foremost military power on the town green of Lexington, to the baptism by fire of the 101st and 82nd Airborne over France, millions of men, many of them no older than you are, faced down death and dismemberment so we could all have the right to vote. Death from a hundred different methods, wounds from a thousand.

It is an idea forged in the fires of the Enlightenment, this liberal, progressive idea of representative government, of all people having the right to vote and elect their leaders for discrete amounts of time. To do away with the monarchy and aristocracy and heredity and nobility.

The conservatives were the "lobsterbacks", the "redcoats", the loyalists to the Crown, back in 1776. Funny how they always forget that part, isn't it?




Besides the battlefields now managed by the National Park Service, where marble and bronze mark unit locations and gravesites, where living history reenactors set up camp during the summer, the battles were also fought in the press, in the courthouse, in the Congress, and on the streets. The 14th and 19th Amendments were no less victories of hard-fought actions than their military counterparts.

"I don't think I should have to stand up" said Rosa Parks on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in December of 1955.



All of this so that we know, on January 20th, 2009, we will witness the beginning of the 56th term of the Presidency of the United States, continuous and uninterrupted since George Washington took the Oath of Office on April 30th, 1787.

We will witness for the 33rd time the President of the United States, Chief Executive of the Federal Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, voluntarily and peacefully relinquish that power to his duly-elected replacement.

It is awesome.




Your first election will be vastly more historic than mine was. I got stuck with 1994. :-(

[Ava]

22. this election is a huge deal

and i'm so excited to be able to vote in it!

[iamthebandfanman]

13. congrats!

my first was in 2000 ;)

wear your i voted sticker proudly ;)
im personally collecting all of my stickers ;)

[Ava]

23. thanks!

i will wear it proudly!! :woohoo:

[rockymountaindem]

24. I also cast my first vote (for President)

My first vote was actually for a tax initiative in 2005. But this is my first major election :)

[Ava]

25. awesome!

congrats to you too then!!

[Jack Rabbit]

26. I voted for McGovern two days after my 21st birthday

[Faygo Kid]

28. Almost two months after mine, I voted for McGovern.

Youngster.

[Ava]

29. well, the right to vote was a great belate b'day present!

though the outcome of the election wasn't what you probably wanted

[Jack Rabbit]

31. That was the first election after the voting age had been set to 18 nationally

So, the only time I got to vote before I was 21 was in the California primary in June, 1972.

Had I been able to vote when I was 18, I would have cast a vote against the re-election of Ronald Reagan as governor of California in 1970.

The election of 1972 didn't turn out the way I wanted, but by election day I was resigned to that. I voted in the precinct that included the dorms at San Francisco State University. I've never checked this out, but somebody told me that McGovern finished first there (no surprise), but also that Dr. Spock, running in California on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket, out-polled Nixon.

If you haven't figured it out, I'll be 57 tomorrow.

[Lavender Brown]

30. Yay!!

My first vote was for Gore. :(

[sarge43]

32. It's a great high.

Ordinary people making extraordinary decisions. Enjoy.

:thumbsup: