What would Robert Kennedy think? It’s a question that has occurred to me this campaign season, and not just because it was his eldest daughter, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who announced on Facebook that George H.W. Bush told her he was voting for Hillary Clinton. Townsend, a former lieutenant governor of Maryland who was defeated by Republican Bob Ehrlich for governor, is a partisan Democrat and also, at least in my limited observations, a very nice person (even if members of the Bush family are cross with her over her Facebook disclosure). That she is a Clinton supporter is hardly a surprise.
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