Obama, Clinton Celebrities Worthy Of Us Weekly Coverage This Campaign Season

A former editor of People magazine had some hard-and-fast rules: young is better than old, pretty is better than ugly, television is better than music, music is better than movies, movies are better than sports.

And anything is better than politics.

Apparently that rule does not apply to the high-drama presidential campaign of 2008, judging by the unprecedented number of pages in People and other celebrity magazines devoted to coverage of the presidential candidates, along with their spouses, children, BlackBerries, wardrobes, iPods and travel Bibles.

"People are craving it," said Larry Hackett, People's managing editor. "They are really, really interested in what's going on, and so we're covering it more than ever."

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