Reply #19: The Reagan-Carter election was the first one I felt crushed by.

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I was twelve, and remember how they smeared Carter with the swimming rabbit thing and the hostage crisis. I always liked Carter.

I was mostly out of politics during Bush I, remember feeling confused by Gulf War 1, and was totally unemployed upon graduating college into the Bush economy. Was completely over the moon when Clinton won. I went to Little ROck on election night in 1992. Wow!

But then I was happily (mostly) oblivious again until 2000. Since then, it's been a freaking obsession, and not a good one.