I was absolutely horrified to find out that a president could be elected before everyone - ie ALL voters - had agreed to who was the best candidate. I thought the job was much too important to hire someone lots of people didn't want.
A childhood belief about politics

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that everytime we elected a president was because the old one died!!:)— angel
- I used to think people with lots of freckles were playing with crayons and drew dots on their face.— WOW
- I thought Santa was the President of the North Pole. It was stupid I know
lol— Lynn Wright - I thought that FDR was an government organization during the Great Depression, not a president.Anon
- My 18 year old brother thought the former vice president was named Al Gorbachov.— Jeff
- I was pretty small when Nixon was President. I thought "Watergate" was a type of alligator.— Ginger