We say goodbye to the youngest First Kids in Hoping (Christina, aged 5 and Grace, aged 3) as their Dad Chris Dodd pulled out of the race after the Iowa results, and to Joe Biden's three children also, as the Senator from Delaware decided to throw in the towel, too.
Jill Lawrence of USA Today notices that some adult kids of candidates are campaigning like crazy (Meghan, Sara, Tagg and Bros) while others (Chelsea, Andrew, Hunter) are keeping a low profile.
A full list of First Kid Hopefuls is drifting around in cyberspace; here it is at Yahoo! News. The youngest is Christina Dodd, age 2, the oldest is Doug McCain at 47, and there aren't any candidates with kids in sixth through ninth grades (ages 10-15).
Kids who need babysitters: Christina Dodd, 2, Grace Dodd, 5, Sasha Obama, 5, Malia Obama, 8, Jack Edwards, 9, Emma Claire Edwards, 9, Mark and Jenna Brownback, both 9.
The teenagers: Bridget McCain, 16, Elizabeth Brownback, 17, James McCain, 18, Caroline Giuliani, 18, Andy Brownback, 19, and Ashton Gilmore, 19.
In their 20s: Abby Brownback, 20, Andrew Giuliani, 21, Jack McCain, 21, Meghan McCain, 22, Jay Gilmore, 23, Sam Hunter, 24, Jackie Kucinich, 24, Sarah Huckabee, 24, Craig Romney, 25, Ashley Biden, 25, Cate Edwards, 25, Chelsea Clinton, 27, David Huckabee, 27, Ben Romney, 28.
Obama and Clinton have added me, but my comment is now waiting for approval. Clinton accepts HTML links, but Obama doesn't. Still waiting for an add from Biden and Giuliani, who gets the Sparrow MySpace Ding for having the least open site, as you have to be added before you even get to view his page.
Before we get back to finding out where and how they live, here's an update on me and them in MySpace.
I tried to friend most of the candidates today and post something about this blog on their sites. John Edwards, Sam Brownback, and Mitt Romney added me and posted my comment after a while, but no HTML code allowed, so people can't click from their sites to this one.
Chris Dodd added me and posted my comment right away, without any long approval process. He also let me link right to this blog like an HTML maniac.
John McCain added me but didn't approve my comment. We'll wait and see what happens. No word at all from Obama, Giuliani, Biden, Clinton, or Richardson.
Results so far: Chris Dodd wins Sparrow's MySpace Award for Freedom of Speech! Sadly, once the Wackos start to post, he might have to change his ways ...
They all want to move into the White House, but where do they live now? Let's start with the Democrats.
The little tykes in the Edwards family get to run around a huge 28,000-square-foot house in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. They have a basketball court, a squash court, two stages and a swimming pool. Two stages? Why two?
The Clintons just can't stay away from white houses. They bought one in the burbs (Chappaqua, New York), and added a breakfast wing that's shaped like an octagon with windows on every side. They even spent a chunk of cash on a finial. Ten points if you know what a finial is. What a strange word. Looks like final spelled wrong. Go here to see a close-up of the house, the octagon, and the finial.
Dressed like glamorous witches, the Obama girls trick-or-treated through Kenwood, their quiet South Side neighborhood in Chicago. They live in a turn-of-the-century brick house with a large backyard, but six condos might be built in the empty lot around the corner any day now so it could get noisy.
One of Senator Biden's hobbies during his 87-minute train ride from Wilmington, Delaware to D.C. is sketching houses in a spiral notebook – a cottage for his widowed mother, a playhouse out by the pond (note: they've got a pond on the property) for the grandkids and daughter Ashley, a vacation home for him and his brother. His place gets torn up a lot thanks to his drawings, and I'll bet he's an HGTV addict, just like me.
Stay tuned for where the Republicans live.
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