Candidates Share a Tragic History
In their campaigns, they raise the subject of their personal tragedies only occasionally and, even then, usually in a tangential way.
Edwards has talked about the death of his 16-year-old son in the context of his wife’s battle with cancer. Biden has recalled the people who helped him when his wife and young daughter were killed in an auto accident. Thompson has cited his 38-year-old daughter’s death as one of the events that have shaped his outlook.
“It’s a sensitive subject,” said Stanley Renshon, a political science professor and psychoanalyst at City University of New York. “The loss of a child ordinarily is devastating to families. It ranks up there with loss of a spouse, probably even higher on the life stress rating scales they use in psychology.”
For the candidates, there are risks and gains to opening up to voters on such sensitive subjects, experts on political psychology said.
“Some (voters) consider these matters private. They wouldn’t talk about it themselves. It makes them uncomfortable,” said Jerrold Post, director of the political psychology program at The George Washington University in Washington.
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