Will the Race for President Turn into a Generational Showdown?

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Can Barack Obama mobilize post-boomers against the politics of the past? Do Hillary and Bill Clintons' appeal to "experience" make older voters want to see them back in the White House? Also, President Bush and Congressional Democrats may be in for another battle over Iraq, and federal raids on four Southern California art museums may lead to criminal indictments.

Barack Obama has written that "the politics of today suffers from a case of arrested development." He calls it "the psychodrama of the baby-boom generation." Can he mobilize post-boomers against the politics of the past? Does the Clintons' appeal to "experience" make older voters want to see them back in the White House? Also, President Bush and Congressional Democrats may be in for another battle over Iraq, and federal raids on four Southern California art museums may lead to criminal indictments.

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Credits

Host:

Warren Olney

Producers:

Sonya Geis, Christian Bordal