Either way next week, the US presidential election is the kiss of death to the short, unhappy rise to power of the baby-boomer generation. If Republican John McCain defies the polls and wins, it will be a repudiation of 16 years of Boomer rule. At 72, McCain's is the generation the Boomers disrespected.
But if Barack Obama wins, he will be the generational switch that consigns the Boomers to history, with the median age of the American voter at 45.
He is at the vanguard of the Brady Bunch generation - the Obama Bunch. His wife, Michelle (born 1964), can pick every episode of the seminal 1970s family sitcom just from the opening seconds.
