Amidst the thousands upon thousands of Americans who were in front of a television somewhere in the United States awaiting the results of the 2012 presidential elections were members of Wichita State’s fraternity, Delta Upsilon.

Sole DU Democrat attendee junior Gabriel Roberson was present at the DU election watch party Tuesday night.

“It is a lot of fun. Sometimes I get pretty nervous because everyone here is Republican and I am the only one that is not,” said Roberson as results were still coming in from Florida, Ohio, Washington and California.

“A lot of it has to do with us being in Kansas and Kansas is a Republican state so the fraternity is a Republican fraternity, although there are a couple holdouts like myself,” said Roberson.

Roberson said he voted for President Barack Obama because of his policies on health care, immigration and his views on economic reform. As for the state results still coming in Roberson expected California to lean toward Obama but that Florida would be a tossup. 

In order to beat the long times others in the U.S. were facing, Roberson voted early.

“I voted at 7 o’clock in the morning,” said Roberson. “I believe it is our civic duty to go out there and vote. You can’t really complain if you didn’t vote.”

Another DU member that woke up early to go vote and was present at the 2012 election watch party was junior Tyler Hockenberry.

“I voted Romney-Ryan,” said Hockenberry as he wore the American Flag and held a yard sign that read Romney-Ryan. 

One main reason why Hockenberry voted for presidential candidate Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan was because “the way our economy is, we need a business man to come in and fix it.”

Although Romney didn’t have good solutions for student loans versus Obama who has been working towards lowering the percentage of income for student loan repayment, Hockenberry said he felt WSU isn’t that traditional to where students need that much financial aid.

Both Hockenberry and Roberson agreed that every vote counts and that WSU students should go and do their civic duty to vote in future elections.

“A lot of people say, Oh my vote doesn’t matter it is a red state anyways’, what if everyone had that attitude, then the wrong person would get elected,” said Hockenberry.

“Two out of three is the way I see it. I’d be fine with two out of three,” Hockenberry said in reference to the House, Senate and Presidential race also adding that he was nervous. “It is the future of America.”

An hour later, all news stations announced that Obama had won the 2012 Presidential elections along with his 2nd term as President of the United States of America.