Cleveland
“I watched that speech that Obama gave, the victory speech in Millennium Park in Chicago, and it was, like, one of those defining moments,” says Bob Carroll, a 23-year-old from Westlake who was a student at Miami University in Oxford in 2008 when he voted for Barack Obama. Carroll says the campus was overtaken with Obamania back then.

“There was that excitement, that hope and change,” Carroll says. “Everybody was swept up. And I’m completely guilty of it.”