Things have been getting real ugly around here,” said Shazia Khan, a lawyer in Washington, who supports Mr. Obama while her husband, Samir Kanani, will vote for Mrs. Clinton. On a recent trip to Argentina, they watched a Democratic debate in their hotel room, arguing so loudly that the housekeeping staff came to check on them.“I think it’s a function of the unique nature of this election, in which you have really high-caliber candidates who are essentially identical on the issues,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has thrown in his lot with Mrs. Clinton, said in an interview.
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