i know marital fidelity is a huge issue for some couples, but i don't think everybody feels the same way. some women are happy enough with a good provider who every so often finds sex elsewhere. perhaps the edwards were the sort of couple for whom children, property, and shared career-interests far outweighed shared intimacy.

if elizabeth edwards is furious, it may be more a function of the blow to her ambitions than any real sense of sexual betrayal.

adultery is not necessarily a big thing - we know that; Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, John McCain, Eliot Spitzer, Gary Hart.. they all did it

what I found intriguing is that the 3 democrats had forgiving wives, while the two republicans got divorced; is it a pattern or just chance

Yuenck

What exactly is your point here? I really hope that it isn't trying to attribute certain characteristics to Democrats and others to Republicans, because I think that the fact that neither party has cornered the market on undesireable behavior, is actually evidence that we are more alike than we are different. This isn't team sports, it's running our country. Personally I'm tired of this liberal/conservative pseudo battle. We don't have time for it anymore. While we are over here worrying about who is sleeping with who, our economy is going to h*** in a handbasket.

Newt Gingritch dumped his wife, divorced her, because she got breast cancer.

So he had a active sex life after all and never got in trouble for 'cheating', he is so smart. Not like Edwards at all.