Mme Obama est très populaire et son nom se retrouve au coeur d'une foule de rumeurs pour 2016. La dernière? Elle se présenterait en Illinois pour l'élection au Sénat.
"She’s more popular than her husband in their home state of Illinois, and there’s a potential opening for a Senate seat in 2016, when Republican freshman Mark Kirk faces reelection. A poll taken before Kirk made an emotional return to the Senate after suffering a stroke found the first lady leading him 51 to 40 percent, numbers that are meaningless this early but still create chatter. A trip to Chicago next month, Michelle’s third since the election, adds to the suspicion she may have her eye on elected office.
“Just because we’re broke, speculation is free—it’s one of the few things we can do,” says Paul Green, a professor of policy studies at Chicago’s Roosevelt University. He notes there are “more similarities than differences” with Hillary Clinton should Obama get drawn into the state’s Senate contest. She would have to file entry papers by December 2015, which means spending the last year of her husband’s presidency on the campaign trail, daring when Hillary did it, and problematical for Michelle, whose daughters would be teenagers and who has never seemed that enamored with campaign life.
“Without asking her, I would guess that the last thing Michelle would do after leaving the White House would be to run for public office,” former Obama senior strategist David Axelrod said in an email. “She has a lifelong commitment to service, but not to politics. I can’t see her going that route.”
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/30/could-michelle-obama-run-for-the-u-s-senate.html
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