An American standing in the checkout line at a supermarket is better informed on a hot issue of the day than the nation's elite who send their maids to buy food while getting their news from The New York Times and the Washington Post.

So far as the precise historical record goes, former senator John Edwards, 55, began his slide into public scandal back on Aug. 25, 2007, when the New York Post's Page Six gossip column ran a blind item asking: "Which political candidate enjoys visit ...

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