Article: THE NEW SUPERWOMAN OF AMERICAN POLITICS Whether or not Sarah Palin wins, politics will never be the same again for US women.

She wasn't going to "stay home and bake cookies", she was going to reform the healthcare system: if we elected her husband, we were thus going to get "two for the price of one". With those words, Hillary Clinton launched herself into America's consciousness, and began a political career that very nearly brought her the Democratic presidential nomination this year. Though she lost that contest, she succeeded in making herself into something more than an ordinary woman in politics. She became an archetype, the Female American Politician.

More than that: she became the archetype of the Powerful American Woman. She herself once explained the hostility she inspires as the misdirected fury of ...

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