By noon on Nov. 4, you could have asked anyone on the streets in University of Wisconsin campus areas if they had voted and around 75 percent would have answered yes. Nearly every person proudly wore an “I voted” sticker and demonstrated enthusiasm for the night to come. When Barack Obama finally was announced as the president-elect, shouting and screaming could be heard from every direction.
Yes we can. Yes we did. We did manage to get out a huge youth turnout rate. We did change the course of our country’s future with our voices. Our generation has constantly been charged with being apathetic toward politics, but on Tuesday we proved we were anything but.