Well, it looks like the Minnesota Get Out the Vote campaign(s) were successful. We had the highest voter turn out in the country!
(Edit: And here is a more official count of the voter turnout in Minnesota. Note that the over 100% in some counties is because of same day voter registration laws in Minnesota. The "Total Number Registered Voters" listed is the number of voters registered before the polls opened.)
And even nation wide, the percentage of voter turnout was the highest in four decades!
We had an election where both the candidates garnered the highest number of votes in American history. I think that counts as a success for the Get Out the Vote campaigns.
The president had the most number of votes cast for him of any previous candidate. He also had the most number of votes cast against him of any previous candidate.
Of course this also means that 23% of eligible Minnesotan voters and 40% of eligible US voters still didn't feel motivated enough by these two candidates to cast a ballot (or were turned away from the polls). GOTV campaigns can only do so much. Is this a question of apathetic voters? Or uninspiring candidates? Or is this the result of the Electoral College system where people in non-battleground states don't have an incentive to cast votes? Or do we just come to accept that Americans will always allow around half of one half of the eligible voters to decide their government?