During last year’s presidential campaign, the second-most talked about aspect of Barack Obama’s historic candidacy was the fervor with which he was widely embraced among young people. His popularity with Generation Y, and particularly voters ages 18-24, was at least as attributable to the tech-savvy infrastructure of his campaign and his inclusive rhetoric on the stump as any specific issue or signature campaign promise. Six months into his presidency and no longer enjoying the public complacence of the honeymoon phase, there is little indication that young people’s surge of interest in the political process will be a lasting consequence of President Obama’s electoral success.