SEMINAR: Youth and YouTube: The 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections

Topic: Youth and YouTube: The 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections

Speaker: Her Excellency Patricia L Herbold
U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore

Date: Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Time: 9.00 am – 10.30 am

Venue: Seminar Room II, ISEAS

About the Speaker
Patricia L Herbold of Bellevue, Washington, was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore on 7 November 2005. Ambassador Herbold is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio and she graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Chemistry from Edgecliff College in Cincinnati. She holds a J.D. from Salmon P. Chase College of Law of Northern Kentucky University.
Ambassador Herbold began her career as an analytical chemist at the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration in Cincinnati, Ohio, and later served as Chief of the Data Processing Unit in its Lake Erie Program Office. She was Associate Regional Counsel for the Cincinnati Real Estate Investment Office of the Prudential Insurance of America from 1979 to 1988, Vice President and General Counsel of Bank One, Dayton, N.A. from 1988 to 1990 and an attorney with the law firm of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister in Cincinnati from 1990 through 1994. Ambassador Herbold served as a Council member and Mayor of Montgomery, Ohio from 1983 to 1987.

After moving to Bellevue in 1995, Ambassador Herbold served a gubernatorial appointment as a Commissioner on the Washington State Gambling Commission from 1997 to 2000. She served as Chairman of the King County (WA) Republican Party from December 2002 to December 2004.

Other community activities include serving as a member of the President’s 21st Century Workforce Council, on the Boards of St. Joseph Orphanage of Cincinnati, Ohio; Salmon P. Chase College of Law; the Seattle Art Museum; the Performing Arts Center Eastside in Bellevue; Washington Policy Center and Long Live the Kings, a non-profit organization dedicated to the restoration of wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest.
Ambassador Herbold is married to Robert J Herbold and they have three children and five grandchildren.

Abstract
A wide variety of factors have made the 2008 U.S. Presidential election the most dynamic in memory – and the general election has yet to officially begin. Different observers point to various key voting blocs that swung the outcome of the primaries and will likely impact the results of November's contest: single women, working-class males, small-town Americans and Hispanics. However, the vast majority of political pundits agree that young people have played a crucial role in the primaries and will continue to do so during the general election. The American "baby boomlet" during the 1980s and 1990s, whose members are now turning eighteen or enrolled at university, is one reason for the new wave of young people getting involved in politics. Another factor is the Internet and related new technologies that are attracting youth to political activism in droves. Ambassador Herbold will give an overview of the election process and discuss these new trends, which have the potential to dramatically shape this year's presidential race and its outcome.

ISEAS cordially invites you to the Seminar.

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