President Obama

"President Obama"

That sounds really weird to me. I'm not upset that he won, I mean I personally didn't vote for him, but I find it quite interesting that he won. Times they are a changin' It's kind of cool to think that we living in a moment that will be in the history books. Our children's children's children will read about this day in text books and have test questions on their school work about this day. kinda crazy! I think it's funny to listen to people freak out about it, like he's got some sort of malicious plan to systematically ruin our country. I really don't think anything horrible is going to happen. Everyone just needs to calm down. It reminds me of Y2K people are talking like they need to build up their food storage and prep the bomb shelters. Oh people, calm it! I read an interesting article about it on MSNBC this morning. It was talking about the speculated reasons Obama won. One of the things they said was he really grabbed hold of the younger voter, and they had some explanations as to why Obama was so appealing to the younger generation. . . thought it was interesting. here's what it says:

Della Volpe says that even months before Election Day, young voters had already made a difference for Obama. Obama owes his victory in the Iowa primary to young voters, he says. “Without that majority in the youth vote community, he wouldn't have won Iowa. That increase in turnout and the significant margin that he had over Hillary really kind of set his campaign in motion.” In 2004, John Kerry won the youth vote by 9 points, says Della Volpe. “Obama's going to probably triple that margin,” he predicts. Through a steady stream of texts and Twitters, experts agree Obama has managed to excite young voters by meeting them where they live — online. “This is a group of people who are constantly checking in with everybody else in their circle to make a decision,” says Morley Winograd, the co-author of “Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics” and a former adviser to Vice President Al Gore. He defines Millennials as ages 18 to 26..“This is a generation that doesn't tend to think about asking experts for opinion," Winograd says. "They tend to ask each other, and then that becomes the truth.” Winograd says that means no decision is made without dozens of e-mails, texts or Facebook messages to check whether an idea works for the whole group — anything from “Where should we hang out tonight?” to “Who should we vote for?” — which could explain why Millennials so firmly latched onto Obama’s message of unity, he says. “They are naturally inclined to be unified,” explains Michael D. Hais, who co-wrote “Millennial Makeover” with Winograd. “It’s the way they were reared; they were reared to believe that everyone has a role to play, everybody is the same and everybody should look for group-oriented solutions.” The 'Barney' generationHais and Winograd share a unique opinion on why this group of young people seem to be so bent on group unity: We're now seeing the first votes cast by the "Barney" generation. Countless afternoons during their childhood, millions of Millennials sat down to watch a big purple dinosaur teach problem-solving to a diverse cast. “They all solved their problems by the end of the half hour, and they all accept one another,” Hais says. Partly because of that "I love you, you love me" mindset, Hais believes that being a young Republican might not be as lonely of an existence as it sounds. Early exit polling data from CIRCLE shows that 30 percent of young voters prefer McCain, but “the way this generation operates, even though the majority of them are Democrats, Millennials, because they are much more collegial, I think will figure out a way to incorporate everybody's point of view,” Hais says. As a Republican young woman in New York City, 27-year-old Lynn Krogh knows she’s outnumbered. But in the last several months, it hasn't felt that way. Krogh, the president of the New York Young Republicans, says her organization has seen its members surge in just the last couple weeks, with 75 more young voters joining in the last days before the election. “I think that because the younger Republicans might be outnumbered some, that there hasn't been as much attention paid to them,” Krogh says. “But there really is just as much enthusiasm and excitement every day.”

Apparantly I'm part of the "Barney Generation" hahaha I thought that was definitely an interesting observation.