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Elizabeth Méndez Berry & Demond Drummer: Where is the Obama Generation now?
Elizabeth Méndez Berry & Demond Drummer: Where is the Obama Generation now?

One year ago tomorrow Barack Obama took the oath of office as the first Black man to be President of the United States. Millions of people were moved by this historic victory and in fact millions had made it possible as volunteers or donors for the campaign Obama for America. When it was all over, the campaign organization Obama for America built what is likely the biggest field operation of any kind in US history and thousands of people - especially young people were transformed by the experience and cut their teeth as organizers. One year later, where are those people who were the foot soldiers in Obama's army? With many progressive and even liberal supports of Obama's campaign now deeply disenchanted, what do those foot soldiers inspired by Obama the candidate think after one year of Obama the President? We talk with Demond Drummer, a 26-year old African American from Chicago who worked for 7 months as a Obama campaign field organizer in rural South Carolina, and Elizabeth Méndez Berry, a journalist whose article "The Obama Generation Revisited" published in The Nation last November profiled 30 young campaign veterans one year later.
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