AP PHOTO/DAVID SMITH
Four years ago, when he was
undergraduate, Thomas Ginn
and everyone he knew got swept
up in the Obama campaign.
“Friends who weren’t even interested in politics were all very
intrigued,” he says.
These days, everything looks
different. “I’m kind of disillusioned with American politics,”
says Ginn, who is about to enroll in graduate school. “It’s all
about making the other party
look bad, and not what’s best
for the country.”
A self-described progressive, he will definitely vote for
Obama, but not with pleasure.
“He can’t run on the same inspirational platform of hope and
change,” Ginn says. “He can’t
possibly say he’s going to change
Washington. He can’t use those
same inspirational new-kid-onthe-block, let’s-all-do-this-together lines that worked so well
last time, because he’s already
in office. It’s more difficult to get
An Ohio State
University
student
boards a
shuttle
outside a
Columbus,
Ohio, polling
place in
2008.