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Election night memories

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Alcott

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Since most posters on this board indicate there won't be a lot to cheer about tonight, no matter what happens, let's reminisce about previous e-night's.

I was less than 2 in 1960, don't remember '64, but I was 9 in '68 and remember that one well. At school there had been talk that if Nixon were elected 'he'll make us go to school on Saturday.' And one guy said , "Humphrey will make us go to school on Sundays, too." I guess we thought the president was a dictator. But we had a class 'election,' and it was -=+ Nixon 20, Wallace 7, and Humphrey 5.

On 11-05-68 I watched the returns on CBS, and Nixon was leading right away, and it looked like the other 2 were even. At one time they had called 8 states for Nixon, and 4 for each of the other 2. I didn't understand the geographics at the time, or why Wallace won Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, and Arkansas. I also thought that 3 'major' candidates was the norm.

Before my younger brother and I had to go to bed, the election had been called for Nixon, to my dad's chagrin, as he was a lifelong democrat. But my brother, who had also heard the talk about school on Saturday, asked if we would have to go to school next Saturday. I at least knew Nixon wasn't the president yet. But our dad just told him, "Now, I don't know who told you that, but the president don't have anything to do with that." I think that eased our minds so we could sleep.
 
InTheLight

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My parents, super conservatives, voted for Wallace in 1968. "There's not a dime's worth of difference between the Democrats and the Republicans" they said. We had a class election in school and I voted for Nixon, who won by a couple of votes.

I also remember they voted for Goldwater in 1964. I remember them saying, "There's no way we should not be able to win a war against Viet Nam, a country roughly the size of Missouri". They were all in on using nukes in Viet Nam.

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blessedwife318

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I remember watching the 2000 returns. I think I stayed up until 1 am waiting to find out who won. That election made for some insrersting conversations in my history class at school.

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InTheLight

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The first time I voted was in 1976. I voted at the elementary school I had attended as a kid. Long lines, I waited almost an hour. Back then they still had the classic old style voting booth with the pull curtain and the mechanical switches you would twist to vote.

The ballot resembled a vertical board or table roughly 36" x 24" with rows of switches and columns of names. Maybe 25 to 30 names. Working down each column you would find the candidate's name that you wanted to vote for, find the small lever switch next to their name and rotate the switch 90 degrees to set your vote. You would cast all your votes in this manner. When you were all done voting you pulled a large, long lever on the far right side of the board, resembling a slot machine lever, only longer. There as a satisfying mechanical "thunk" as the lever pull was completed, your vote locked in and recorded. Thus the well known term, "pull the lever", meaning you voted. You'd then pull open the curtain and exit the both.

Oh yeah, I voted for Ford.

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Squire Robertsson

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Me and herself just finished plodding through long California ballot. We were Providentially blessed as we don't live in San Francisco, that ballot had about ten more measures up for a vote.
 
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Alcott

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First voting in '78, I only voted by punch card-- or writing it out by pencil, as in local elections-- until 2000 or 2004. My maternal grandfather, a storekeeper and one of the few Republicans in these parts, died in Oct., '78, and he had often said he would never live to see another Republican governor in Texas. Less than a month later, Texas elected its first Republican governor since the early 1900's. He was right.
 
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I remember last election. Begging God for Obama to lose to a LIBpublican named Romney. I kept saying to myself "America can't be THAT stupid." Then the results came in....Omuslim would be a 2termer. I puked in my mouth a little.

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HankD

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Alcott said:
Since most posters on this board indicate there won't be a lot to cheer about tonight, no matter what happens, let's reminisce about previous e-night's.

I was less than 2 in 1960, don't remember '64, but I was 9 in '68 and remember that one well. At school there had been talk that if Nixon were elected 'he'll make us go to school on Saturday.' And one guy said , "Humphrey will make us go to school on Sundays, too." I guess we thought the president was a dictator. But we had a class 'election,' and it was -=+ Nixon 20, Wallace 7, and Humphrey 5.

On 11-05-68 I watched the returns on CBS, and Nixon was leading right away, and it looked like the other 2 were even. At one time they had called 8 states for Nixon, and 4 for each of the other 2. I didn't understand the geographics at the time, or why Wallace won Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, and Arkansas. I also thought that 3 'major' candidates was the norm.

Before my younger brother and I had to go to bed, the election had been called for Nixon, to my dad's chagrin, as he was a lifelong democrat. But my brother, who had also heard the talk about school on Saturday, asked if we would have to go to school next Saturday. I at least knew Nixon wasn't the president yet. But our dad just told him, "Now, I don't know who told you that, but the president don't have anything to do with that." I think that eased our minds so we could sleep.
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I was a JFK Democrat when I was in the service. After Roe vs Wade, I bowed out of both parties but voted mostly Republican.

Then when the DNC made abortion part of their platform I could never vote for a democrat again in any office because the DNC officially supported legalized murder.

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Bible Thumpin n Gun Totin

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This is the second Presidential election I've voted in, just turned 22 in September. Back when I voted in 2012 I remember staying up in my dorm room watching the numbers roll in on the NY Times interactive map...guess what this 'ol country boy is doing again? lol
 
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HankD

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Bible Thumpin n Gun Totin said:
This is the second Presidential election I've voted in, just turned 22 in September. Back when I voted in 20012 I remember staying up in my dorm room watching the numbers roll in on the NY Times interactive map...guess what this 'ol country boy is doing again? lol
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But this time you will get to see our queen's coronation in January 2017.
If you look closely you may see Bill (The First Gentleman) hiding behind the throne.

Just kiddin' (I think).

:)

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Jedi Knight

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I was on Jay Sekulow fb live tonight and they took my call about if the illegals could effect the vote after what Obama did and no voter ID thingy. I told him tonight was a cool memory for remembrance. :)
 
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