Behind Every Good Man

by Sara Goodman Confino

He wouldn’t have won an election without me—how could he? He didn’t even wear matching socks when we met.” “I doubt the men who voted for him were looking at his socks.” “No, but the women sure would have. And you may think women will vote how their

husbands do, but I’ll tell you this much: behind every good man is an even better woman.” She pointed her cigarette at me. “That’s how you win this thing. You get the women on board, and they’ll pester their husbands with everything wrong with Sam.”