Obama couldn't have voted for Carter....(did he say he did??) Timetable for Obama ....
Obama Born Aug 4, 1961
Obama Moved to Jakarta in 1967
Vote ratified to legalize vote at 18 – July 1, 1971
Obama Graduated Punahou HS in 1979 (probably June) Obama would have been 17 when he graduated, and would be 18 on Aug 4, 1979.
Carter elected Governor of GA November 1970, and was sworn-in as the 76th Governor of Georgia on January 12, 1971 and held this post for one term, until January 14, 1975.
Carter ran against Gerald Ford, and Carter narrowly beat him for President on November 2, 1976. He was sworn in office Jan 1977 for a 4 year term.
Other notes about Obama and a question from KLP ---How did Obama fund his very expensive education? Or do all social workers go to Harvard?
"Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it." Obama (1995), pp. 93–94. For analysis of the political impact of the quote and Obama's more recent admission that he smoked marijuana as a teenager ("When I was a kid, I inhaled."), see: Romano, Lois
After high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for two years.[21] He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations.[22] Obama received his B.A. degree in 1983, then worked at Business International Corporation and NYPIRG before moving to Chicago to take a job as a community organizer.[23]
As Director of the Developing Communities Project, he worked with low-income residents in Chicago's Roseland community and the Altgeld Gardens public housing development.[24] He entered Harvard Law School in 1988.[25] In 1990, The New York Times reported his election as the Harvard Law Review's "first black president in its 104-year history".[26]
He completed his J.D. degree magna cum laude in 1991.[27] On returning to Chicago, Obama directed a voter registration drive.[27] As an associate attorney with Miner, Barnhill & Galland from 1993 to 1996, he represented community organizers, discrimination claims, and voting rights cases.[28] He was a lecturer of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1993 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004.[29]
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