It's Super Tuesday in Oklahoma, though not too exciting for us Democrats. Today I'm really thinking back to the first time I really paid any attention to the multi-state voting day in 1988. That was the year I backed Al Gore for President. Why? My Grandmother is the reason. You see, she was old enough to have voted for Oklahoma Senator Thomas Gore, a distant relative of Al Gore (and Gore Vidal for that matter) so that meant our family was gonna be for Gore.
I was pretty excited to have backed the winner - that night Gore won Oklahoma along with Arkansas, North Carolina, Kentucky, Nevada and Tennessee. Ultimately of course he lost to Mike Dukakis, but it made me an Al Gore fan for life.
I haven't really had as exciting an experience on Super Tuesday since. I guess your first is always memorable, huh?
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