What was the first political event (not protest) that you attended involving The Democratic Party...

[wnylib]

76. I started late compared to some posters here.

First event I was 15. Humphrey came to my town in the early fall of of the Johnson/Humphrey campaign for 1964. Got to shake hands with him.

Then a big gap before being active in any party events, unless you count watching Nixon's resignation with my fiancee and his friends and and cheering with them as a Democratic event.

I was involved in activities related to Dem policies, but not to actual party events. Things like tutoring kids who were accepted for college admissions but needed tutoring because, through no fault of theirs, their college prep education was lacking due to racial discrimination and poor schools in Black communities.

The next political event after that early one with Humphrey was when I met First Lady Hillary Clinton at a Dem rally in my town during her first campaign for NY Senator. Shook hands and had a brief conversation with her on education.

Soon afterward I phone banked for local Dem election candidates. Then did phone banking and door to door for both of Obama's campaigns, door to door for Hillary in 2016, and phone banking for Joe in 2020.