Clive Crook ragiona sulla scelta di Sarah Palin. Secondo lui, visto che ormai era persa per i repubblicani, la mossa disperata di John McCain potrebbe anche pagare. E i democratici dovrebbero cominciare velocemente a prendere le misure di Palin, invece di fissarsi su dettagli non importanti.
If the Clintons had wrecked last week’s Denver convention and split the Democratic party, things would have looked different and Mr McCain might have made a safer choice. They chose, however belatedly, to unite the party and then at the end of the week Mr Obama shone. All this harmed Mr McCain’s prospects. If you think you are on track to lose, it is not crazy to gamble on redemption, so long as you think the bet has a big enough upside. This one does. Like Monty Python’s Knights Who Say Ni, it will take the Democrats a little while to stop complaining that Mr McCain stands for four more years of Mr Bush. McCain-Palin is about as far from Bush-Cheney as you could imagine. I look to Mr Obama for a more intelligent response before long. In this, as in many other ways, he seems wiser than the experts around him. He congratulated Mrs Palin on her nomination without condescension or so much as a trace of a moose joke. Once again, inexperience and good character pay.
FiveThirtyEight fornisce spunti interessanti, sul fatto che su molte issue la Palin è decisamente più a destra della maggioranza dell'elettorato. Basta farlo sapere. Obama sta cominciando. E in modo giusto: la Palin è contro al principio "equal pay for equal work". Insomma, una femminista al contrario.
Financial Times, FiveThirtyEight, Political Radar (ABC)