This page has four interview segments that I did for LinkTV this September 2008, around their airing of a documentary looking back on the 2004 election. My segments are each about 6 to 7 minutes long, and they were produced to fit as breaks in the film as part of a two-hour overall program. I essentially was countering the film's premise, which was about how young people seemed disengaged from politics, given the 2000 and 2004 elections. This first section tees up the overview analysis that the film was a period piece given the political paradigm shift that occurred this election cycle:
This next section explains the rise of the young Millennial Generation, and compares them to the Generation X that preceded them. Gen X was very apathetic and disengaged from politics, as well as very conservative. But the Millennials are very different, and very progressive.
The next section talks about the impact of new media and new technologies in revolutionizing how politics gets conducted. This is a concise version of talks that you can see in other parts of the website.
This final section wraps up the analysis by laying out what I mean by The Obama Moment, the historical moment that America is now in. This was filmed in early September, right when Sarah Palin was rising and McCain was leading in polls. I made the prediciton then, as I publicly have done since spring, that Obama was going to win in a landslide.
