Il est beaucoup trop tôt pour conclure à l'échec de la campagne présidentielle de Hillary Clinton, mais Emily Bazelon, du magazine Slate, se permet déjà d'offrir cette réflexion sur ce que les femmes doivent à la sénatrice de New York. Je me permets de la citer dans le texte :
Hillary has been an excellent first for us. No one else could have done what she's done, with all her aplomb and professionalism and seriousness. But she doesn't have to be the nominee, or the president, to have come through. She hung in there past every other contender, save one. She made it to the finals, the last round, overtime-whatever sports metaphor you want to use. I don't mean to suggest that she's done. But if she loses for good in the next weeks or months, she loses with dignity and heft and heart. And she'd leave us feeling, in a way I know I've never felt before, that a woman can be elected president. We already owe her. We'd owe her for that, too.
À noter que Barack Obama a remporté le vote des femmes hier soir, selon les sondages réalisés à la sortie des bureaux de vote.