Yes. But both she and Obama are part real and part pop phenomena at this moment. She has a lot more substance. But we haven't seen a press conference where the reporters are screaming questions at her.
I've seen one presser on troopergate from Alaska and she didn't do so good.
“... we haven’t seen a press conference where the reporters are screaming questions at her.”
We haven’t seen this with Osamba either - not likely to happen with him.