Because I teach political science at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), I was tapped us someone to interview this morning in connection with yesterday’s Presidential election in the U.S. I tag-teamed with one of my colleagues, Dr. Jeremy Kedziora, which made the experience a lot more fun and a lot less scary (LIVE TV!!!).
Although this interview was a live appearance, you can slide back the timeline on the video to watch a particular spot. My part begins at 1:08:48. I don’t know how long it will stay up, but I wanted to share.
Here’s the link: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/senaste-nytt-om-valet-i-usa
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UPDATE: Now that the broadcast is over, the “live feed” clip also appears to have disappeared. However, I was watching the show in my office first thing this morning to get a feel for what was happening in this broadcast before I went upstairs to the roof garden atop my building (the Grohmann Museum) for my 15 minutes of fame, and I discovered this afternoon that I had left my original tab open when I paused the feed to go get interviewed. The video was still there on that unrefreshed page, so I was able to play it after all and do a screen recording of our interview. I uploaded that 12-minute clip to my YouTube channel so I could share it with my family and colleagues, and I labeled it as “unlisted,” meaning it’s not exactly public but not completely private, either. If you have the link you can find it.
Here it is 🙂 (The audio goes out at the very end, so whatever BRILLIANT things I was saying at that point are lost forever, LOL)
Katherine Wikoff 
Thank you for posting that—it was interesting. It must have been a bit of pressure to be speaking on Swedish national television! Glad your colleague was there too to reduce some of the pressure. I enjoyed listening to both of you. I’m not surprised Sweden sent reporters to cover the election! As I am sure many Americans are aware, the US election was a big topic of conversation in many other countries, Canada included. I felt like every conversation I had at work today and certainly every conversation with friends at least touched on the US election.
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Thank you for your kind words. I was really grateful not to be doing it by myself, and I thought our comments complemented well. I was kind of surprised that Ukraine and climate didn’t come up, because those were two things Sweden’s prime minister had specifically addressed in a speech earlier that day as topics of great concern to Sweden with Trump’s election. But hopefully we gave some useful perspectives. Apparently Milwaukee was one of a few epicenters of “swing voting” in the U.S. and was being watched by many analysts. So maybe our remarks were of interest just because of where we are?
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That makes total sense as to why they were interested in interviewing you! I didn’t realize Milwaukee was one of the major “swing voting” areas.
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