La question nest pas nouvelle mais l'ancien rédacteur en chef du New York Times, Bill Keller, la soulève de nouveau dans cette tribune, conseillant à Barack Obama de choisir Hillary Clinton comme co-listière en 2012. Je cite un extrait de son article dans le texte :
I know the arguments against this scenario, and we'll get to those. But the arguments in favor are as simple as one-two-three. One: it does more to guarantee Obama's re-election than anything else the Democrats can do. Two: it improves the chances that, come next January, he will not be a lame duck with a gridlocked Congress but a rejuvenated president with a mandate and a Congress that may be a little less forbidding. Three: it makes Hillary the party's heir apparent in 2016. If she sits out politics for the next four years, other Democrats (yes, Governor Cuomo, we see your hand up) will fill the void.
She would bring to this year's campaign a missing warmth and some of the voltage that has dissipated as Obama moved from campaigning to governing. What excites is not just the prospect of having a woman a heartbeat - and four years - away from the presidency, although she certainly embodies the aspirations of many women. It's the possibility that the first woman at the top would have qualifications so manifest that her first-ness was a secondary consideration.
P.S. : Obama aura au moins un nouveau chef de cabinet s'il est réélu à la présidence. Celui qui occupe ce poste depuis le 6 janvier 2010, William Daley, a démissionné. Il sera remplacé par Jacob Lew, l'actuel directeur du budget.