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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-04-08 10:32 PM
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14. We watched the impeachment hearings
in the high school social science course I took during summer school- the timing was absolutely perfect for that moment in history. And I thought my father must be a political prophet because he said that Nixon was a "crook" when I was like, 4 years old!
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  -At what age did you know your political orientation? undeterred  Apr-04-08 09:58 PM   #0 
  - Before college, probably would have voted Republican  CreekDog   Apr-04-08 10:00 PM   #1 
  - Its OK. I voted for Gerald Ford the first time I voted.  undeterred   Apr-04-08 10:04 PM   #5 
     - I did worse...  Raine   Apr-05-08 02:55 AM   #38 
  - I remember not liking Reagan - he was creepy to me  JoeIsOneOfUs   Apr-04-08 10:03 PM   #2 
  - Uh, in high school when I knew I wasn't for Goldwater...  k8conant   Apr-04-08 10:04 PM   #3 
  - I was only in elementary school  izquierdista   Apr-04-08 11:44 PM   #28 
  - It's the way my father raised me,  Blue_In_AK   Apr-04-08 10:04 PM   #4 
  - I remember when I was 11 or 12 thinking that republicans just seemed mean.  Forkboy   Apr-04-08 10:05 PM   #6 
  - My Dad and older brother talked Labor issues at the dinner table.  patrice   Apr-04-08 10:05 PM   #7 
  - I'm independent. I swing both ways  TheDoorbellRang   Apr-04-08 10:06 PM   #8 
  - Other: I was a Republican until I was in my early 20's.  MercutioATC   Apr-04-08 10:07 PM   #9 
  - My mom had me out campaigning when I was 2.  Shae   Apr-04-08 10:08 PM   #10 
  - My parents always said they were the only Dems  undeterred   Apr-04-08 10:15 PM   #11 
     - Your dad probably WAS exaggerating  Shae   Apr-04-08 10:21 PM   #12 
        - We watched the impeachment hearings  undeterred   Apr-04-08 10:32 PM   #14 
  - Not sure. Mine's ever-changing, although I do seem to be getting more liberal with age.  Blondiegrrl   Apr-04-08 10:31 PM   #13 
  - This is by far the best poll I've seen  davidpdx   Apr-04-08 10:38 PM   #15 
  - It's important because studies show that ...  frazzled   Apr-04-08 11:27 PM   #20 
  - Well, my parents were always pretty liberal, and have probably gotten more so with time,  nomorenomore08   Apr-04-08 10:48 PM   #16 
  - I remember saying stuff like that in High School  undeterred   Apr-04-08 11:19 PM   #18 
  - I was raised to be a Democrat  connecticut yankee   Apr-04-08 10:52 PM   #17 
  - Somewhere there's a picture of me with a Stevenson sign...  RichardRay   Apr-04-08 11:22 PM   #19 
  - During the 1964 election year  goodgd_yall   Apr-04-08 11:30 PM   #21 
  - Soon as I learned my dad was a Dem  gristy   Apr-04-08 11:30 PM   #22 
  - Dem as long as I can remember...  RazBerryBeret   Apr-04-08 11:30 PM   # 
  - My first real political memory is throwing my sandwich across my parent's bed when Carter lost  4_Legs_Good   Apr-04-08 11:30 PM   #23 
  - I cried when Carter cried.  undeterred   Apr-04-08 11:32 PM   #24 
  - I can remember from before Kenendy was shot and I was born in 1959.  McCamy Taylor   Apr-04-08 11:34 PM   #25 
  - Red Diaper baby. Grandmother and father were Socialists.  Tierra_y_Libertad   Apr-04-08 11:34 PM   #26 
  - When I was about 6 I gave my mother some change I had and told her I wanted to give it to poor  pirhana   Apr-04-08 11:38 PM   #27 
  - During the Kennedy-Nixon debates.  kevsand   Apr-04-08 11:55 PM   #29 
  - About 6 months before the Kennedy-Nixon debates.  Seabiscuit   Apr-05-08 12:02 AM   #31 
  - I was about 10  Candido77   Apr-04-08 11:58 PM   #30 
  - I was very young; 5 I think  provis99   Apr-05-08 12:05 AM   #32 
  - After I read The Communist Manifesto  IndianaGreen   Apr-05-08 12:14 AM   #33 
  - Way back when JFK was President, helped on McGovern's  Historic NY   Apr-05-08 12:47 AM   #34 
  - 1952. Fourth grade. I was the "I Like Ike" team leader playing King of The Hill.  TahitiNut   Apr-05-08 12:49 AM   #35 
  - Well, see I found these magazines in the neighbor kid's garage.....  FlyingSquirrel   Apr-05-08 12:59 AM   #36 
  - New Republic?  undeterred   Apr-05-08 04:22 AM   #41 
  - HIgh school for me, I partially have Bush to thank for that  ShadowLiberal   Apr-05-08 01:27 AM   #37 
  - I was a Randian Objectivist type as a teen  Firespirit   Apr-05-08 03:04 AM   #39 
  - Sometimes its hard to know how to rebel.  undeterred   Apr-05-08 04:21 AM   #40 
  - I went through a Rand-ian phase too, in highschool.  patrice   Apr-05-08 10:25 AM   #44 
  - I quit Girl Scouts after a mock-election showed only me for JFK.  WinkyDink   Apr-05-08 06:00 AM   #42 
  - Damn Girl Scouts.  undeterred   Apr-05-08 09:47 AM   #43 
  - I became a political junkie around the age of 13, during Watergate  IDemo   Apr-05-08 10:32 AM   #45 
  - Diaper Dem  BlueDogDemocratNH   Apr-05-08 10:39 AM   #46 
  - kick  mdmc   Apr-09-08 11:06 PM   #47 
  - Other  Symarip   Apr-09-08 11:08 PM   #48 
  - 5th Grade, when John F. Kennedy was assassinated.  tyedyeto   Apr-09-08 11:16 PM   #49 
  - When I was a zygote  Swamp Rat   Apr-09-08 11:24 PM   #50 
  - When I was picked from the Cabbage patch.  Neshanic   Apr-09-08 11:25 PM   #51 
 

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