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. Many political differences throughout our brief 250 years have ended Read more…
How 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 for a few days. After finally calling him, he said Read more…
We 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 I mentioned that we’ve self-gerrymandered ourselves, both geographically and socially Read more…
You’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 could hope for. It featured a Billionaire Reality-Star. A former 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 important events– events which appeared thousands of years after Wisconsin’s 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 truth. Sure, Wisconsin started Democratic (with obscure-sounding “Whig” and “Free-Soiler” Read more…