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Don’t Get Any Ideas, John Edwards

In this mug shot released by the U.S. Marshals Service June 15, 2011, Former U.S. Senator John Edwards (D-NC) is seen. Edwards plead not guilty June 3, 2011 to charges of using campaign funds to help hide a mistress and the baby he had with her.
Photo: U.S. Marshals Service

The Sodom and Gomorrah that is New York City may have started to consider forgiving its horny, disgraced politicians, but North Carolina is a place with a moral center: A new poll finds that 67 percent of voters there still have a negative opinion of John Edwards. Somehow, 15 percent view him favorably, but maybe they just forgot about the whole “having a love child while your wife is dying of cancer and you’re running for president, and then covering it up” thing.

Don’t Get Any Ideas, John Edwards