This Year's Model

Recently, I wondered aloud to a friend if the success of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as mainstream candidates might be partly attributable to the fictional TV example set by Geena Davis on Commander in Chief and Dennis Haysbert on 24.



It stood to reason, I said, that seeing a white woman or a black man as president, even in a fictional show, brought it into the realm of possibility.


"Well," said my friend, "there's lots of evidence that product placement works, you know."