Dem Race Splitting Some Couples in Two

[goldcanyonaz]

NEW YORK -- Andrea Brustein and her husband, Michael Firestone, both New York attorneys, were having lunch with friends when the talk turned to politics. Firestone revealed that he'd made a donation to Barack Obama.

"Well," parried his wife. "Now we're going to donate to Hillary Clinton."

And when Greg Caucutt acquired an Obama bumper sticker for his car on a sunny day in Rochester, Minn., necessity dictated that he give his wife a sticker for hers: A Hillary sticker, that is.

Not that these couples have been fighting tooth and nail -- their political banter has been friendly, they say. And surely there are divided couples on the Republican side, too. But in this historic Democratic race, which will produce either the first female or the first black nominee, some couples are finding themselves split down gender lines, even if they don't cite gender as a reason for choosing their candidate. And it's producing some animated household discussions.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-democrats-couples-divided,1,2411312.story

[thereismore]

1. Not for too long I hope. nt