Hey Samantha, the first general election I voted in, Carter won. The second belonged to Reagan. I didn’t give up after Jimmy won.
Goodness, don’t tell her that! I hope she stays too discouraged to vote for the next 40 or 50 years!
I missed voting in that election by about 6 months. It was a great disappointment since I really wanted to vote for President Reagan.
I can still remember talking with one of my high school classmates about the candidates; we both were just a little too young to actually vote. I remember telling him how I liked what Reagan had to say. He said, “Oh, you’re conservative!” Still am, to this day.
The whole “women only voted for Trump because their husbands/boyfriends/some male in their lives told them to” is extremely offensive to me, in part because I was making up my own mind and making my own decisions even before I was old enough to vote.
I don’t recall having any particular difficulty in figuring out how to vote, either. Then again, I remember going with my parents to vote when I was preschool age.