Reply #85: Except according to Edwards, before his affair became public, it was the voters' business.

[Garbo 2004]

He publicly stated in interviews that a candidate's personal conduct and morality was a reflection of character and trustworthiness. And it was fair for the voters to consider that. He was the most moralizing, "family values" candidate of the Dems, directly linking private personal conduct as a measure of public trustworthiness.