Mitt Romney's wife gushes about his silly side and devotion to their five sons and 16 grandchildren.
Rick Santorum's college-age daughter opines online about missing the campus coffee shop and chats with friends about their Friday night plans.
Jon Huntsman's daughters generate much-needed buzz for him with a joint Twitter account and online videos, including at least one that went viral.
Days away from voting in the Republican presidential race, the path to the nomination quickly is becoming a crowded family affair with spouses and offspring pitching in and doing far more than just smiling from the sidelines.
Ann Romney, Anita Perry and Callista Gingrich are starring in new TV ads for their husbands. Romney extols her husband's character and says, "To me, that makes a huge difference" in a candidate. Perry tells the "old-fashioned American story" of how she and her husband were high school sweethearts who had to wait until he was done flying airplanes around the world for the Air Force before they could marry.
Callista Gingrich wishes the nation a Merry Christmas "from our family to yours" in husband Newt Gingrich's new holiday-themed TV ad.
Candidate kids are helping, too, acting as surrogates, strategists and, in some cases, sounding boards for parents competing for the right to challenge President Barack Obama next fall.
"There are times when I wonder why I'm not sitting in the coffee shop on campus with my friends, lightheartedly discussing ('Saturday Night Live') videos, how bad the cafeteria is, what our plans are for Friday night or how absolutely swamped we are with schoolwork," Santorum's daughter, Elizabeth, lamented in a recent blog post. "But this is where God wanted me."
Sometimes the family members campaign with the candidates, and other times they go it alone.
While Rick Perry spent several days campaigning in Iowa recently, his wife was in New Hampshire emphasizing his small-town upbringing and conservative values at a retirement community chapel. Audience members peppered her with questions about subjects such as taxes, immigration and the death penalty.
"She handled them quite well," said Sid Schoeffler, an independent voter from Concord. "When she knew the answer or knew the campaign's story line, she recited it. And when she didn't know, she said so. I thought that was refreshing.
"But whether it's enough to swing my vote, I don't know yet."
Source: http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2011/dec/26/tdmain04-gop-primary-is-family-affair-ar-1568181/
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