The Candidates and Their Wives

I'm getting lots of emails across the transom regarding the wives of the candidates and how each is or isn't the best/worst thing to happen to America. We don't elect the wives of course, but the role of family is being used as both carrot and stick, comfort and fear in this campaign.

Here are two links that are factual starting points:

Wall Street Journal article on Cindy McCain


About.com article on Michelle Obama