Michael Hais and Morley Winograd
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Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais are fellows with NDN and the New Policy Institute. They are the co-authors of "Millennial Momentum: How a New Generation is Remaking America" to be published in September, 2011 and Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics" (Rutgers University Press, 2008).

MORLEY WINOGRAD

Morley Winograd is a Senior Fellow with USC's Annenberg School's Center for Communication Leadership and Policy. He served as senior policy advisor to Vice President Al Gore and director of the National Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR) from December 1, 1997 until January 20, 2001. Winograd also co-authored (with Dudley Buffa) Taking Control: Politics in the Information Age (Holt, 1996).

MICHAEL D. HAIS

Michael D. Hais served for a decade as Vice President, Entertainment Research and for more than 22 years overall at Frank N. Magid Associates where he conducted audience research for hundreds of television stations, cable channels, and program producers in nearly all 50 states and more than a dozen foreign countries. Prior to joining Magid in 1983, Hais was a political pollster for Democrats in Michigan and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Detroit. He received a B.A. from the University of Iowa, an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, all in political science.

Blog Entries by Michael Hais and Morley Winograd

A New Generation Debuts: Plurals

(0) Comments | Posted May 7, 2012 | 4:59 PM

In the middle of the 1950s, a seemingly spontaneous revolt against the prevailing conformist values of the country erupted among its youngest generation, the somewhat inappropriately titled, "Silent Generation." In the early 1950s members of this cohort, born between 1925 and 1945, were mostly known for their willingness to go...

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Crowdsourcing the Congress: Wikipedia's Blackout Bomb

(4) Comments | Posted January 22, 2012 | 7:41 PM

The debate over legislation to stop online piracy revealed not only the threat that a new generation of consumers presents to the entertainment industry's traditional business model, but the equally shaky future of the way Congress currently conducts its business. The high tech, Internet-based companies that Hollywood most fears used...

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Now Republicans Must Deal with Their Crazy Uncle in the Attic

(267) Comments | Posted January 3, 2012 | 9:28 PM

Ron Paul's strong showing in Iowa's GOP caucuses creates a dilemma for the Republican Party, which has always treated him like a crazy uncle it would prefer to hide in the attic. Now Paul and his dedicated band of Libertarian followers can't be ignored without jeopardizing the GOP's chances in...

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Real Story Behind the Millennial Headlines on Obama

(0) Comments | Posted December 20, 2011 | 9:49 AM

The headline of a December 15 press release from the Harvard Institute of Politics trumpeted, "More Millennials Predict Obama Will Lose Bid for Re-election Than Win, Harvard Poll Finds." The article elaborated that among all the 18-29-year-olds, opinion on this question is actually quite evenly divided into almost...

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Now Is the Time for All Good Millennials to Come to the Aid of Their Country

(2) Comments | Posted September 6, 2011 | 5:35 PM

The 2012 election will present the United States with a stark choice between two radically different visions of the country's future. Which of these competing visions becomes the nation's future is likely to be determined by the strength and effectiveness of the Millennial Generation's participation in next year's election....

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Millennials' Democratic Ties: Bent but far From Broken

(5) Comments | Posted August 3, 2011 | 5:41 PM

The recent release of survey data by the Pew Research Center indicating that the party identification of Millennials had narrowed from 60% Democratic vs. 32% Republican in 2008 to 52% Democratic vs. 39% Republican in 2011 produced a flurry of articles by political observers.

USA Today

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Millennials Celebrate the Death of Their Arch Nemesis

(2) Comments | Posted May 2, 2011 | 4:19 PM

On January 20, 2009, a record number of nearly two million people personally witnessed the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States. Many, if not most of them, were in their teens and twenties. Members of the Millennial Generation (born 1982-2003) had come to Washington...

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Put Millennials First

(25) Comments | Posted May 1, 2011 | 10:07 PM

Just as sure as April showers bring May flowers, this month brings the annual ritual of television "upfront" ad buying to New York City. This is a chance for the networks to show off their fall line-ups and biggest stars to advertisers. With Charlie Sheen and Donald Trump thankfully out...

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Obama Goes to War the Millennial Way

(9) Comments | Posted March 28, 2011 | 6:25 PM

America's engagement in Libya has provoked a spasm of commentary from seasoned hands in the foreign policy establishment and pundits of all political stripes complaining that President Obama's decision to join in the United Nations' sanctioned, multi-lateral effort to protect civilians from Muammar Gaddafi was either confused, wrong-headed, or naïve,...

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Walker Awakens a Sleeping Giant

(17) Comments | Posted March 10, 2011 | 10:58 AM

The use of a legislative maneuver last night by Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate to advance Governor Scott Walker's efforts to strip state employees of their collective bargaining rights may have caught Democrats by surprise, but the ultimate result of the actions of Walker and his GOP allies may have...

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Victory for Egypt's Leaderless Revolution

(9) Comments | Posted February 11, 2011 | 5:35 PM

As jubilant young Egyptians danced in the streets of Cairo and Alexandria, celebrating the departure of their 82 year old former president, American television commentators immediately began discussing two issues that seemed to them to be of greatest importance: who were the leaders of the uprising and how did they...

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Generational Economics

(2) Comments | Posted September 14, 2010 | 1:17 PM

This week three top Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives-- Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, and Paul Ryan -- will release their new book, Young Guns, outlining a vision for America's future that reflects their Generation X philosophy of individual autonomy and hostility to community or collective action.

Originally,...

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Democrats Rock the Vote on Campuses

(4) Comments | Posted February 22, 2010 | 1:47 AM

More than twice as many 18-29 year olds voted for President Barack Obama as for John McCain in 2008, and one year later the party preferences of college students remain similarly lopsided in favor of the Democratic Party and its political point of view.

The most recent data from communication...

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If You Don't Use It, You Lose It

(16) Comments | Posted January 27, 2010 | 10:34 AM

In spite of incorrect explanations like those of New York Times political columnist Matt Bai that the election of Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate resulted from the actions of a fickle electorate dominated by political independents, the loss by Democrats of a long-held Senate seat...

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Energizing Millennials: Key to 2010 Democratic Victory

(1) Comments | Posted October 7, 2009 | 5:45 PM

The latest unemployment numbers and poll results have led most observers to predict a major setback for Democrats in the 2010 Congressional elections. But a year is a lifetime in politics and much can change between now and then to influence next year's vote. As Ron Brownstein recently pointed...

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Have Patience: Republicans Are Working Their Way Through the Five Stages of Grieving

(43) Comments | Posted August 18, 2009 | 11:58 AM

In 1969, Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross published a groundbreaking book On Death and Dying, suggesting that people facing death went through five emotional stages before they could accept their fate. While never proven by subsequent studies, the five stages of grief have entered the realm of conventional wisdom and are often...

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Will Young People Unite to Save the World?

(3) Comments | Posted June 26, 2009 | 5:04 PM

Seventy percent of Iranians are under thirty.

These young people have twice the presence in the population of that country as America's largest generation, Millennials (born 1982-2003), has in ours.

In the immediate aftermath of Iran's disputed presidential election, text messages became the tool for organizing post-election protests. Hundreds...

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The Honeymoon Isn't Over Until the Public Sings

(2) Comments | Posted April 30, 2009 | 4:00 PM

While noting that President Barack Obama has higher job approval scores than any president in the past three decades, some in Washington also wonder how long this honeymoon can last and how much Obama can get done before it ends. The answer to those two questions lays in placing both...

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Obama's Millennial Moment: President to Sign National Service Bill Today

(1) Comments | Posted April 21, 2009 | 9:22 AM

In a ceremony fraught with political and generational symbolism, President Barack Obama today will sign the aptly named “Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education” (GIVE) Act (now the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act) at a White House ceremony, capping his campaign promise to ask Americans to reinvigorate their country...

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Everybody's Wrong But Us

(3) Comments | Posted April 13, 2009 | 1:15 PM

In Wednesday's Washington Post, conservative columnist Michael Gerson, citing a recent Pew Research Center poll, says that the "polarization" between Democrats and Republicans in their approval of President Barack Obama's performance is greater than for any other president in surveys stretching back to the early days of the Nixon...

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