by Whitney Blair Wyckoff

Democrats are splitting their allegiances between the party's two presidential candidates, and the staffs of major women's magazines seem to be following suit.

Folio: magazine reports that the division is causing some office discord:

"It's come to screaming matches in our office," said Marie Claire editor-in-chief Joanna Coles during a Mediabistro panel (see: "High Profile Magazine Editors Drink Whiskey, Discuss Industry's Gender Gap") in New York on Tuesday. "There are some knockdown arguments."

Some Marie Claire staffers "feel that being the wife of the president is tantamount to being president," she said. Others support Obama, with younger female staffers, in general, favoring the Illinois senator.

"It's completely divided our readers" and staff, Coles said. "It's a house divided."

Other women's magazine editors spoke of similar fault lines at their titles, and the existential crisis female staffers are having when their colleagues move to support Obama.

"I think she was so unfairly vilified," Elle executive editor Alexandra Postman said of the media's treatment of Clinton earlier in the campaign. "It was this stealthy sexism that was just so unfair." If Obama faced the same vilification, it would've been "completely unacceptable."

This, she said, has galvanized her staff, more so than any election before. Coles said the readers have also been more engaged in the tight race.

The article also said that women's magazines are having a tough time covering politics because of their production cycle. To counteract this, Glamour has launched its own politics blog, Glamocracy.