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Yet for the last decade or so, Americans’ faith in the electoral exercises had eroded and their attendance at the polls dwindled, especially among the younger generations uninspired by the civil superstitions of their fathers. Political apathy had so afflicted the nation that, leading up to the 2004...
A week after election day this year, the non-believers have been proven wrong. Barack Obama, the prophetic voice of hope crying in the partisan political wilderness, has reinvigorated Americans’ interest and engagement in the electoral process and especially inspired the once-lukewarm faith of the youth. And...
For, as the television networks called the election for Obama when the California polls closed at 11 p.m., self-restraint seemed, to his disciples at Harvard, as impossible as it was inappropriate—for the much-awaited rapture had arrived.
Accounts of election-night reactions in the next days’ papers confirmed the widespread jubilation.
The Crimson reported that “screams, cheers, and chants of ‘Yes We Can’ echoed around the freshmen dorms” for “more than two hours after CNN announced the results of the presidential election.” A video on...