Obama 2012: un boy's club?

Non selon cet article de Politico. L'équipe des dirigeants de la campagne comptera dans ses rangs Julianna Smoot.

"While Hillary Clinton was defining a new place for women in politics two decades after a woman ran Michael Dukakis’s 1988 presidential campaign, the three most visible figures for Barack Obama — David Plouffe, David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs — were male.

There were several women in positions of authority on Obama’s campaign team — but his testosterone-fueled Chicago operation was so male-dominated, one female aide to Republican John McCain accused the campaign of “boys’ club bullying … better suited for a frat house than a serious campaign about serious issues.”

The 2012 campaign promises to be different — maybe.

Obama’s campaign manager, top spokesman and chief strategist will once again be male, but two women, Julianna Smoot and Jen O’Malley Dillon, have been picked as deputy campaign managers, essentially sharing the number two job in what promises to be a billion-dollar campaign.

Smoot, with her gilded fundraising connections and networking skills, is tasked with mobilizing a nationwide network of power players. O’Malley Dillon, a former top party official, is helping build the dozens of state organizations needed to activate Obama’s grass-roots support.

Both will bear significant day-to-day operational responsibilities, and they will alternate running the Chicago headquarters when campaign manager Jim Messina is on one of his frequent road trips, a senior campaign official told POLITICO.

Their titles and the roles they will play — along with the choice of Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee — are a tacit acknowledgment of past shortcomings and a recognition the Obama effort has to better reflect a crucial voting bloc this time around."

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