La campagne \u00e9lectorale du s\u00e9nateur Obama a incontestablement acquis un rythme qui commence \u00e0 sembler irr\u00e9sistible dans l’interpr\u00e9tation m\u00e9diatique qu’on en donne. Le constat est simple: \u00abObama scores 10th straight victory<\/em>\u00bb, le titre d’une d\u00e9p\u00eache AP du 20 f\u00e9vrier<\/a>, \u00e0 propos de ses victoires dans les primaires, en restitue le ton. Cette m\u00eame d\u00e9p\u00eache rapporte les d\u00e9clarations du candidat apr\u00e8s cette dixi\u00e8me victoire, et le ton est plus que jamais celui du changement, \u00e0 commencer par l’Irak.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe change we seek is still months and miles away, Obama told a boisterous crowd in Houston in a speech Tuesday night in which he also pledged to end the war in Iraq in his first year in office.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbI opposed this war in 2002. I will bring this war to an end in 2009. It is time to bring our troops home, he declared.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLes indications sur les intentions des votants poussent \u00e9galement \u00e0 cette dialectique du changement dans le sens populiste que certains commencent \u00e0 reprocher<\/a> \u00e0 Obama. Le renforcement et l’\u00e9largissement de la base populaire du s\u00e9nateur Obama se marquent dans des cat\u00e9gories qui ont un potentiel contestataire important, comme on le voit dans cette analyse pr\u00e9visionnelle des votes des grands Etats industriels de l’Ohio et de la Pennsylvanie. \u00abIn a race growing increasingly negative, Obama cut deeply into Clinton’s political bedrock in Wisconsin, splitting the support of white women almost evenly with her. According to polling place interviews, he also ran well among working class voters in the blue collar battleground that was prelude to primaries in the larger industrial states of Ohio and Pennsylvania.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tL’incident intervenu \u00e0 propos de Michelle Obama, la femme du candidat, renforce cette impression contestataire. Le compte-rendu qui est fait de cet incident, et de la fa\u00e7on dont Michelle Obama tente de le rattraper, concerne \u00e9videmment une d\u00e9claration \u00e0 coloration nettement contestataire puisqu’elle semble avancer une critique fondamentale des USA jusqu’\u00e0 ces \u00e9lections: \u00abFor the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country…<\/em>\u00bb. Selon AP, le 20 f\u00e9vrier<\/a>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abOn Monday, Michelle Obama told an audience in Milwaukee that For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country. Not just because Barack is doing well, but I think people are hungry for change. Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential contender John McCain, later sought to capitalize on the remark, saying I have, and always will be, proud of my country.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAsked by WJAR-TV if she would like to clarify her comment, Obama replied that she has been struck by the number of people going to rallies and watching debates, as well as record voter turnouts. What I was clearly talking about was that I’m proud in how Americans are engaging in the political process, she said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbFor the first time in my lifetime, I’m seeing people rolling up their sleeves in a way that I haven’t seen and really trying to figure this out and that’s the source of pride that I was talking about, she added. When asked if she had always been proud of her country, she replied absolutely and said she and her husband would not be where they are now if not for the opportunities of America.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tCes divers faits, autant que l’affirmation grandissante de la campagne Obama, montrent bien la convergence vers la tentation contestatrice de cette campagne. Les divers \u00e9l\u00e9ments de contestations sont r\u00e9unis, que ce soit la contestation explicite de la politique ext\u00e9rieure (par Obama lui-m\u00eame) ou la tentation implicite d’une contestation plus g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de la situation aux USA (par Michelle Obama, avec cette mise au point montrant qu’on appr\u00e9cie le caract\u00e8re risqu\u00e9 de cette \u00e9volution).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n