On Tuesday, November 6, 2012, current President Barrack Obama was reelected to serve a second term from 2013-2017, becoming the 44^th President of the United States. In a close vote count, for the 2012 Presidential Election showed Obama leading the popular vote nationally with 62,085,892 tallies (or 50.6 percent) over Republican challenger Mitt Romney, who had 58,777,012 votes (or 47.9 percent).

“Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward…” Obama said to open up his victory speech, which took place at McCormick Place Convention Centre Chicago, Illinois.

However there are mixed emotions from many high school students at LP who decided to take a strong interest in the election.

“I was disappointed with the election turnout. Obama had four years to make a difference and he didn’t,”sophomore Marcus Fenimore said.

Many students were unhappy with the reelection. However the majority of LP did not have a strong opinion.

“I actually wasn’t paying much attention to the election while it seemed most of my friends were talking about the results. I just want a president who will do a good job,” sophomore Jordan Arnold said.

While some students were disappointed or indifferent to the election results, others are more than pleased with the outcome.

“I feel like Obama will do a better job dealing with the things he has created in the last four years than Romney.  More people in high school should have an opinion because our generation is going to be living with the turnout,” sophomore Maddy Truijo said.

Despite clashing opinions, the reelection is giving President Obama another chance to fix problems in our economy and improve our country over the next four years.