Les USA plus ouverts a une femme ou un noir president

December 10, 2006

Firsts (The New York Times)

The Pattern May Change, if ...

By ADAM NAGOURNEY


AFTER a 217-year march of major presidential nominees who were, without exception, white and male, the 2008 campaign may offer voters a novel choice.

But as Barack Obama, the senator from Illinois whose father is from Kenya, spends this weekend exploring a presidential bid in New Hampshire, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first woman to represent New York in the Senate, calls potential supporters in Iowa, the question remains: are Americans prepared to elect an African-American or a woman as president?

Or, to look at it from the view of Democrats hungry for victory in 2008, is the nation more likely to vote for a woman or an African-American for president?

Suite de l'article: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/weekinreview/10nagourney.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin