The Candidates’ Wives also Campaign

It’s easy to surpass someone in popularity when one isn’t subject to the daily toll of power, when one makes interview appearances on daytime shows that talk about the candidate’s good qualities and how well they make pancakes on Saturday mornings in the privacy of their homes. Both Michelle Obama and Ann Romney surpass their husbands in terms of fame. Mrs. Barack Obama has a popularity rating of 69 percent – her husband 56 percent. Mitt Romney’s wife is at 52 percent – her husband at 45 percent.

With these figures from a poll last week from The Washington Post and ABC in mind, the wives of the contenders to win the White House on Nov. 6 campaign almost daily for their husbands in the most contested states with the purpose of squeezing out more votes, especially the female vote, which favors Obama 51 percent to 48 percent.

After her debut at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Ann Romney has become a focal point of information herself. Apart from her husband’s campaign. Romney’s wife has her own plane for her trips, organizes her own fundraising events and has given more interviews than her husband. A few days ago, she even competed with Barack Obama when she appeared at a rally in Henderson, Nevada where the president was preparing for the fateful debate in Denver that relegated him to second place in the polls.

Ann Romney’s agenda wasn’t always so packed with events and commitments. The campaign had the illness she suffers, multiple sclerosis, in mind, as well as the fact that it gave her a scare during the difficult days before Super Tuesday, which this year was March 6. However, Mrs. Romney has taken on the role of selling her husband’s image from coast to coast.

Michelle Obama, the most popular of all, has an obligation to the White House’s agenda, but, at three weeks before the presidential elections, her campaign activity has become frenzied. Today she voted by mail and has called out for those who won’t be able to go to the polls in November to follow her example. The president will vote in Chicago on Oct. 25. On Wednesday, she will appear on one of the most watched morning television shows. She devoted this afternoon to a rally in contested Ohio and next week she will return to Los Angeles to take part in another one of those multimillion-dollar fundraising dinners organized by celebrities, on this occasion hosted by Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.