Opinion: Candidates’ Home Sweet Homes

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Our LATimes.com colleague Peter Viles over at the L.A. Land blog on real estate has an interesting item up now on the homes of the current crop of presidential candidates. What the heck are they doing away from these palatial places?

Not that any of these candidates are at home that much these days. They’re out on the road staying at Marriotts spending other people’s money trying to gather our votes. But the item and pictures do provide revealing windows into the presidential wannabes’ private lives that we don’t see too much. And that’s no accident.

There’s a photo of Mitt Romney’s $3-million New Hampshire ‘cottage,’ and the candidate with the most expensive home and haircut, John Edwards. The former senator and trial lawyer didn’t want to be too showoffish, so he kept the $5.4-million structure to just 21,000 square feet of living space.

That’s almost a half-acre indoors.

-- Andrew Malcolm