The Running Mates.

To people in Burlington, Vermont, Howard and Judy Dean are just the folks next door. Busy with a thriving medical practice, Judy, 50, manages to get to PTA meetings but barely has time to cook a meal for the family, which includes son Paul, 18, a high school senior, and Anne, 19, who is at Yale. If Howard Brush Dean III has his way, next year he and Judy will be moving out of their humble house and into slightly more grandiose digs: the White House. Since declaring his candidacy for President in June, Dean, who served as Vermont's governor for nearly 12 years, has gone from virtual unknown to front-runner in the race among nine candidates to win the Democratic party's nomination. One thing Dean does not have, however, is a traditional politician's wife. With the exception of an appearance on the day he declared his candidacy in Burlington last summer, neither Judy nor the couple's children has ever joined Howard on the stump.