Reply #54: hey -- me too!

[iverglas]

When *I* was very young and foolish, I worked on a federal Liberal campaign. It shames me to admit it, but there you are.

But that was 1968, it was Trudeaumania, and I was 15 ... and by the time they lowered the voting age to below my own age, I had smartened up ... although I still didn't get to vote, due to a concerted effort by local election officials (yup, Liberals) to keep university students off the voters' list.

Actually, I'd smartened up by 1969, when the NDP candidate I worked for actually won a provincial by-election in whitebread London, Ontario, then the home of all that was Tory - a feat not to be repeated for a long time. And so I thought for a while that if I just worked hard enough, my candidate would win. By 1974 I'd been disillusioned of that one too, that being the time I campaigned NDP but voted Tory. (Hey, add that one, and the 2003 Liberal vote, and shurely I get a standing ovation for confessions!)

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