Huffington Magazine Issue 1 | Page 64

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.