Despite media sneering that they’d stay home playing video games instead of voting, a slightly larger proportion of younger Americans hit the polls on Election Day, many showing up just to vote against President Obama, their 2008 hero.

A new analysis by Generation Opportunity, a youth-focused issues group, revealed Tuesday that Obama’s younger voters made an 11-point shift to the Republican, Mitt Romney, the biggest protest movement of any age group in the election. In 2008, Obama beat Sen. John McCain 66 percent to 32 percent among voters aged 18-29, but this year 60 percent chose the president and 37 percent Romney.