WashPost looks at how Cindy McCain has been “a candidate’s wife for almost the entire course of her 28-year marriage” — and how she “looks perfect for the part.”

“The perfection of Cindy McCain is a theme that repeats itself in interviews with those who know her — this woman who hid her drug addiction from her husband for years, who fought her fear of campaigning via small planes by getting her pilot’s license without telling her husband.”