It's no secret whom I will vote for today. Not only is the Obama/Biden sign in the front yard a dead giveaway, it is well known to many that I first declared my support of a Democratic candidate 64 years ago. An oft-told family story bears this out.
The election of 1948 was held on November 2, the day after my second birthday. That was the election in which Thomas E. Dewey was expected to beat incumbent Harry Truman, but in the end the President prevailed. On election night, my grandparents had a lot of friends and family over, and there was a lot of talk about the election. At one point, one of Grandma's friends turned to two-year-old me and said, "And who did you vote for?" to which I replied, "Twuman."
I guess before that I would have considered myself an Independent.
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