12 Houses? - John McCain, White House '08

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Karl Rove

yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 8/26/2008

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Karl Rove makes the point that I’ve been making previously, namely that it’s genuinely hard to tell how many houses John McCain has: Remember, the question from Mike Allen of Politico was how many houses do you and your wife own? Mrs. McCain is a wealthy woman. She owns a number of not only homes, some of which, for example, her elderly aunt lives in, but investment properties. ...

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