Muckraker: Grist on Politics

GOP presidential candidate John McCain isn’t sure how many houses he owns. “I think — I’ll have my staff get to you,” McCain told Politico yesterday. “It’s condominiums where — I’ll have them get to you.”

The correct answer seems to be somewhere between four and seven. The Obama campaign has already released this ad on the subject:

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UPDATE: The McCain campaign responds with the arugula defense: “In terms of who’s an elitist, I think people have made a judgment that John McCain is not an arugula-eating, pointy headed professor-type based on his life story,” spokesman Brian Rogers told the Post.