Aaaaaaaaaaaand the Winner is...!

Barack Obama!

Tuesday evening, the night of election night, was, without a doubt, a huge deal on campus. Starting at around 6:30, students were gathered around their televisions or laptops watching the news and keeping track of voting polls since the very moment results began to pour in. Obama and Romney supporters alike were eager to know how things were going to turn out, and up and down the streets you could hear the partiers at Witt already going crazy.

Facebook and Twitter, especially, were blowing up with election news. Some people were threatening to move to Canada or England depending on who won, while others were just making status updates every five minutes about who was in the lead. Arguments broke out and friends were un-friended, but a little after 12:30am most everyone knew who the winner was.

Again, supporters on both sides began to blow up their social network feeds with either joy or disdain, though it's unclear on how many of them actually decided to pack their bags and emmigrate out of the country. In reality, it was probably very few of them. But as of November 8th, two days after election day, things have seemed to calm down.

Yeah, there's still a Facebook status or two popping up on my feed, but Wittenberg University seems to have already moved on.

-Fran