re: Just curious, what age or election cycle did you start actively following politics

When I was 17, I started getting into politics. I was a Bill OReilly and GWB fan girl. I actually cried real tears when Bobby Jindal lost the governor’s race in 2003, though Idk if I old enough to vote in it. It might have been the first election I ever voted in? I don’t feel like doing the simple math right now.

In college and right after, I used to see Bill Cassidy around BR all the time and would be so excited.


I don’t really follow national politics anymore and haven’t in probably 10 or so years. Obviously my political leanings have changed since I graduated from college. I’m working on a PhD in wokeness now.

1988. Bush vs Dukakis. Age 6.

Actively- 2003 with the start of Democratic Primary and Louisiana Gubernatorial Election.

I was a sophomore in high school that year taking civics with one hell of teacher that our little small town in a rural parish had any business having.

But I remember always having an interest in politics even as a little kid. I guess that came from growing up in a farming family and absorbing the news every morning/night while Dad had it on waiting for the farm report and weather.

I’ll be 40 in July and the first I truly paid attention to was 2004 but remember being up all night in 2000.

I was knee high on a tadpole.

My early teens is when I started following things due to my Dad. Dad was elected as the head of the Fresno County Republican Party in the 90s and had me listening to and reading Limbaugh when I was about 15 (I’m 48 now). He and a few friends took down our local RINOs winning 8 of 9 elections to get rid of their presence and then made led the charge and made the county Red for awhile. Dad was very active in politics and worked on Alan Keyes’ presidential campaigns. Alan would stay at his house when he’d come to town. My first election was ‘96 when my voting against the dems began.

Same for both. 15 and Reagan's first term. Carter was such a disaster that I figured I better find out why.

Eighth grade.

tRonald - 49
Mondale - 1

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Eighth grade. tRonald - 49 Mondale - 1

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I was just talking about that with my wife. Told her that Reagan beat a guy in biggest landslide. She is younger than me but remembered that the democrats at nominated a female vice president. And I told her about the picture of the guy in the Abram’s tank. I’m older but I think Mondale had his picture made in an Abram’s tank to make him look tough with foreign policy but it backfired. If I remember correctly

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BC (Before Clinton) I paid little attention to politics and pretty much cruised thru LSU in the '80s. Thanx to media indoctrination I was pretty much a "Go along w/the Liberals" type.

Then came Clinton. He was such a scumbag, yet the MSM pushed him like the Messiah. I began to see just how biased and corrupt the system was. I started listening to Rush Limbaugh. He covered stories the MSM ignored or ridiculed.

Also around this time we began hearing about something called "Political Correctness", now known as Woke. An Orwellian seizure of power - cultural as well as political - by the left.

There is an old saying that there is one decade in your life that shapes you politically. For me it was the Clinton years.

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quoted in awe
same for me

I had a lab job in college and I listened to Rush Limbaugh everyday
changed my views on politics forever