Getting Personal: Voters Sound Off on the Candidates

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NEW YORK A quick Google search reveals the following: Judith Nathan Giuliani was a broke, part-time receptionist who is now a money-and power-hungry wife (per vanityfair.com); Jeri Kehn Thompson is younger than one of her husband’s children from a former marriage (via the blogosphere); and Michelle Robinson Obama once took her husband on a job interview to see if the interviewer passed his muster (according to slate.com, which recently began a First Mate series). From spouses and children to religious beliefs, a presidential hopeful’s personal life is fair game—fodder to dissect and discuss when considering the brand that is a candidate.

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