While making the documentary SWING STATE, I researched other contentious, political periods in The United States. Yes, the elections of 2016 and 2020 had their fair share of conflict. But we’ve seen some other real doozies in our nation’s history....
Read moreHow would you react? Upon finishing my last shots for SWING STATE, a Democratic leader called me up in Beloit. I’d been suffering with what I thought was a case of food poisoning, so I didn’t get back to him...
Read moreWe touched upon a few ideas why Swing-State Wisconsin is so divided, in our last blog post. You may recall that I mentioned Jonathan Haidt’s work regarding “The Culture Wars,” and how those wars have exacerbated. You may also recall...
Read moreYou’d learn a number of lessons from retracing our steps in the making of Swing-State (a series about Wisconsin). First, recall that the documentaries began the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration. Election 2016 had all the drama a good story Read more…
Wisconsin and its Swing-State history rocks (as my last blog indicated)! But there’s much more to “America’s Dairyland” than a unique political past. The state became a Territory in 1836, A State in 1848. But much went on before those Read more…
Well, what do you think?… Wisconsin: Always a Swing-State? Most people would say “America’s Dairyland” wasn’t originally such a place. In fact, most people probably think Wisconsin has always being a Democratic state. But nothing could be further from the Read more…