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. . .except Michelle Obama isn't actually running for anything.
Highly visible political wives are nothing new (Hillary Clinton, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary Todd Lincoln, et al.), but I wonder if there's ever before been so much attention and analysis devoted to one before her husband was even elected. Is it really a good thing for democracy when people base a large part of their vote for, or against, a candidate on their feelings about his wife?
Because that means that correspondingly less of their vote will be based on the actual candidate's proposals, experience, voting record, and other such things which, in the long run, matter vastly more.
