Share your past encounters with the presidential candidates.

[RandySF]

Me...

In January, 2007, Sen. Barack Obama spoke at a fundraiser for Barbara Boxer when SF District Attorney Kamala Harris pushed past me and the rest of the crowd to meet Obama at the rope line. Two years later, I spent an evening in a Noe Valley living room as she began her campaign for State Attorney General.

Do you have any stories about the field to share?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Years ago when she was first running for the Senate

I had a very pleasant phone conversation with Amy Klobuchar. But that's it. I've never encountered any of the others.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. I was at an event in Kansas in 2006 where Barack Obama was the guest.

It was wonderful. I didn't speak to him, because I figured the African Americans there ought to have first dibs on him. I have no regrets, because at least I was in the same room with him.

I was a huge supporter of Howard Dean, and met him several times. I like him a lot. Too bad he wasn't our nominee.

[wasupaloopa]

3. I did not speak to them but I was on phone calls

with Hillary in 2016 and was invited to Obama’s first inauguration. Went to a Hillary rally in 2016.

[BeyondGeography]

4. Obama and I partied with the same guy in the same apartment

But never at the same time, discovered it in the Maraniss book. He lived one block away from me, too, which I discovered when I read Dreams From My Father. So close...