Political Rambling

TIME Magazine did a cover story on the potential First Ladies and one First Laddie and their influence in the primary race this week. It was an informative article with a lot of information I had not heard before. That is why I like TIME magazine. They do real in depth original reporting. Not this meta stuff that bloggers like I can do. Real original reporting is of great value and more people should subscribe and advertise there.

Anyway, back to the original topic at hand. They profiled all the potential First Ladies and it turns out that 4 of them are Lawyers. This group as a whole is as non-traditional as you could imagine. More women are successful in their careers on their own these days and this is directly reflected in the professions and backgrounds of these women. It shouldn’t be a suprise though that someone successful in politics would want a wife that is just as smart and accomplished as he is. Times have changed.

This brings up the question, what do Americans want of their First Lady? How much does that figure into who they Vote for? I personally think it can’t really help you too much, but it can hurt you a lot. I think people will not vote for a candidate if they don’t like the wife, but they will vote for a candidate if they like him and are either ambivolent about the wife or like her (or him). I still think that 90% of who you vote for is still about the candidate themself.  It’s just the spouse that can be a disqualifier if they seem too aggressive, too crazy or not very polished.