Newsweek consacre la couverture de son nouveau numéro à Sarah Palin, dont l'influence auprès des chrétiennes conservatrices fait l'objet d'un article dans les pages intérieures de l'hebdomadaire. Une influence qui a peut-être été cruciale dans la montée en force de deux candidates soutenues par l'ex-gouverneure d'Alaska, Nikki Haley, qui brigue le poste de gouverneur de Caroline du Sud, et Carly Fiorina, qui tente de se faire élire au Sénat des États-Unis en Californie. Je cite un extrait du reportage de Newsweek dans le texte en priant un de nos collaborateurs de le traduire :
Palin has been antagonizing women on the left of late by describing herself as a "feminist," a word she uses to mean the righteous, Mama Bear anger that wells up when one of her children is attacked in the press or her values are brought into question. But while leftist critics continue to shred Palin as a cynical, shallow, ill-informed opportunist, and new polls show her unpopularity rating to be at an all-time high-53 percent-Palin is now playing to her strengths. Even if she never again seeks elected office, her pro-woman rallying cry, articulated in the evangelical vernacular, together with the potent pro-life example of her own family, puts Palin in a position to reshape and reinvigorate the religious right, one of the most powerful forces in American politics. The Christian right is now poised to become a women's movement-and Sarah Palin is its earthy Jerry Falwell.