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November 05, 2008, 03:47 PM ET
Students Post Election Celebrations on YouTube
Students around the country have posted videos online documenting their reactions to Barack Obama’s historic victory last night in the 2008 presidential race.
Much of the footage features students screaming, smiling, and searching for words to describe the moment. They smoke cigars, dance, and run across college campuses and through city streets chanting the name of the Democratic candidate they overwhelming supported. Sixty-eight percent of voters ages 18 to 29 voted for Mr. Obama, and the youth vote represented 18 percent of total voters, according to a report in today’s Chronicle.
In one video, a Howard University freshman named Monica walks around in a daze as the news begins to soak in. “This is unbelievable,” she says. “We thought this would never happen.” Later she adds: “I’m going to tell my kids about this.”
Most of the videos were posted to YouTube, the popular video-sharing service. Just four years ago, during the previous presidential campaign, the video service didn’t even exist — it was founded in 2005.
A search of YouTube yields dozens of election-night videos by students, including these.
At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
—David DeBolt
Categories: Student-Life
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