Un buon punto della situazione sulla campagna elettorale americana è data dall’editoriale dell’Economist sul peggioramento dell’aria che tira e dal lungo ragionamento sulle donne nella politica americana fatto da Newsweek la settimana scorsa

What is now known as the Palin Effect seems to be overturning almost a century of wisdom about the way women think and vote. Republican women, who have long been loath to vote for mothers of small children, are suddenly defending the right of women, or a woman, rather, to return to work three days after giving birth, and to seek higher office with five kids—one of whom is a pregnant teenager, and another a newborn with Down syndrome. Some Democratic women are threatening to defect to the Republicans—even if it means voting for pro-life candidates—just because Palin is a woman.