The Most Judged Woman in America

That any American politician is truly self-made is a pretty hilarious notion. While some start out poor or disadvantaged, along the way every political aspirant benefits from mentors, donors, true believers, hangers-on, sycophants, consultants, friends, family, fund-raisers—and, in the case of male politicians, wives.
Maybe the wife holds down things on the home front, raising the kids and ensuring that the politician can present himself as a family man and therefore stable and upstanding. Maybe she brings in the earnings during his early, less lucrative years, then gives up...