Re: POTUS 45.1 - You take the high road and I'll take the low road
George W v Gore was the first presidential election I was old enough to vote in.
I considered myself and independent. I was not enrolled in a political party. I thought McCain was a decent and honorable man (I don't think too highly of him anymore), and growing up under the Clinton presidency I thought positively of Gore. I thought Bush was an idiot, and that it would make a terrible president and would be an embarrassment to the country. After he was elected it probably pushed me further left. I opposed the Iraq war, and basically said I'd never vote for a Republican after the disaster that was George W. I may have voted for Olympia Snowe once after that. McCain choosing Palin was the final nail in the coffin for the Republicans for me. I've voted for Independents: Angus King, Eliot Cutler (the first time he ran against LePage, the second time around there was a much stronger democrat) but I don't think I can ever vote for a Republican now. Especially now, after Donald Trump.
I actually voted R in the first election I was 18- then promptly became a lifelong lib after living overseas at the age of 21.
Republicans under GW angered me. Republicans under Trump sicken me.
George W v Gore was the first presidential election I was old enough to vote in.
I considered myself and independent. I was not enrolled in a political party. I thought McCain was a decent and honorable man (I don't think too highly of him anymore), and growing up under the Clinton presidency I thought positively of Gore. I thought Bush was an idiot, and that it would make a terrible president and would be an embarrassment to the country. After he was elected it probably pushed me further left. I opposed the Iraq war, and basically said I'd never vote for a Republican after the disaster that was George W. I may have voted for Olympia Snowe once after that. McCain choosing Palin was the final nail in the coffin for the Republicans for me. I've voted for Independents: Angus King, Eliot Cutler (the first time he ran against LePage, the second time around there was a much stronger democrat) but I don't think I can ever vote for a Republican now. Especially now, after Donald Trump.