“Everyone was really excited about the election and what we could do. After the election, we realized, ‘It’s not happening. What we wanted to happen hasn’t happened.’ That’s making students back away from actively participating in elections.”
— Maria Carrasquillo, the campus coordinator for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign at the University of New Hampshire, describing to The Boston Globe the disillusionment of young voters who started with high hopes for Obama