The results are in…

November 5th, 2008 at 12:57am Caitlin Hanson

I voted in my first presidential election today for Barack Obama and watched the election coverage excitedly in my friend’s dorm room.

I go to college in Missouri, a bellwether state, and registered to vote here, as well, considering President-Elect Obama needed my vote here more than Illinois would have.  After the initial announcement of Obama’s presidency, shouts of all reactions came from the hallways and from outside: excitement, joy, disappointment, frustration.

Many media outlets often portray college students as liberal hippies, similar to the “College Know-It-All Hippies” of South Park.  This isn’t the case, however, especially not in Missouri. Many of my peers are staunch conservatives and truly dislike Barack Obama, not only as a candidate, but as a person.  They like “their guns and religion.”  These conservative peers fear a socialist nation, possibly even the next USSR.  Thankfully I know our Constitution would not allow for such an attrocity.

I am eager to witness the coming events of the next four years.   I am highly pro-guns — definitely in favor of the concealed weapon law that was on the ballot for Winnebago Co. — and am not too keen on universal healthcare.  That did not stop me, however, for standing behind the rest of the ideals behind which Obama stood, too.

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