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NRaleighLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 03:48 PM Original message |
Poll question: What stimulated your interest in politics (at least enough to pay attention!) |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
1. I became politically aware as a teenager in the 80s - so Reagan admin's corruption made me.... |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 03:51 PM Response to Original message |
2. I voted in my first presidential election in 2000. In Florida. |
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azmouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 03:51 PM Response to Original message |
3. I've always been a little interested in politics but |
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ChicagoSuz219 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 04:35 PM Response to Reply #3 |
25. Me, too! 2000 turned me into a political junkie! nt |
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PetrusMonsFormicarum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
4. Other: |
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NRaleighLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 04:00 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Good for you...we watched from afar...were just moving to Raleigh around that time. |
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mvd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
5. During the Reagan administration, I started noticing politics |
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RoyGBiv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
6. Becoming self-aware ... |
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LisaM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
7. Born that way |
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notesdev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
8. My background |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
10. War. I cast my first vote Absentee from Viet Nam. I felt "Invested" in the outcome |
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Sinti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
11. When I was a small child, before Nixon resigned |
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tosh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 07:11 PM Response to Reply #11 |
39. Amazing story.... |
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Sinti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 09:16 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. I know and apparently she wasn't crazy |
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NRaleighLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
12. looking pretty interesting - keep em coming! |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
13. The prospect of an early death. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
14. 1992 |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
15. JFK assassination, |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
16. I was raised |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
17. White kids spitting on an old Black man in Jacksonville Beach, FL. 1957. |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
18. Viet Friggin' Nam & civil rights movement |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
19. My mom was active. Always dragging me to functions, got to meet Senators and Congressmen when I was |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
20. 1968 |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
21. Several: |
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Lucian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
22. Someone as passionate and compassionate as Paul Wellstone. |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
23. The possibility of getting drafted and sent to Vietnam. |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
24. Reaganomics |
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OneTenthofOnePercent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 04:42 PM Response to Original message |
26. Harassing passionate people from the other side of the fence. |
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tosh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
27. I grew up in a town where racial inequality and poverty |
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Barack_America (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 05:14 PM Response to Original message |
28. Other: Gulf War. |
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NRaleighLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
29. Getting more and more interesting. keep it going! |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
30. the Clinton race in 1992 |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
31. I was born into it. n/t |
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branders seine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
32. Kennedy versus Nixon |
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FreeStateDemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
33. Watching the 1956 Democratic convention on the tube with JFK closing the deal for me and politics. |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 06:07 PM Response to Original message |
34. The Clinton Impeachment process. |
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PJPhreak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 06:40 PM Response to Original message |
35. All it took was some... |
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NRaleighLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
36. This is interesting - a few main themes emerging, probably depends on our ages. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
37. Other: Local environmental issues |
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Crunchy Frog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 07:07 PM Response to Original message |
38. Iraq war. |
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