Candidates’ spouses

I have a question: Would Barack Obama have been elected president if his wife had posed almost naked in a magazine, plagiarized Laura Bush’s speeches and claimed to have a degree that she did not?

Until now, such a combination of offenses committed by a spouse would have offered a supreme challenge to the candidacy of any presidential hopeful.

This story was originally published September 14, 2016 at 8:37 PM with the headline "Candidates’ spouses."