Last Tuesday, I, like many other Americans, took to the polls to vote in the Midterm elections. Well, technically, I took to the polls when I sent in my Illinois absentee ballot a few weeks ago, but you get the point. The midterm elections turned out to be monumental; the first Native American congresswomen, the first openly gay governor, the first Muslim women in Congress, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress and the largest turnout of Millennial voters in history are