The Intersection of Pop Culture & Politics

[Frank W. Baker]

Did Harry Potter help elect Barack Obama?  Anthony Gierzynski, a political science professor at the University of Vermont, believes the moral lessons in the Harry Potter series “played a small but not insignificant role” in the president’s elections in 2008 and 2012.

In his new book, “Harry Potter and the Millennials: Research Methods and the Politics of the Muggle Generation,” Gierzynski argues that millennials – those born in the early 1980s through the early 2000s – were so taken by the series’ portrayal of good and evil that it influenced their votes. Read on.

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2013/09/03/2958316/did-harry-potter-help-ob...