(Updated below with video of Barack hitting McCain on his out of touch comment.)
Barack Obama returns fire with an ad on McCain's out of touch admission that he doesn't know how many homes he owns.
(It's a good ad, but my favorite of the campaign is still this new ad targeting an Yucca Mountain targeting Nevada, which I think locks up the Silver State for Barack.)
Update: Here's video of Barack talking about McCain's home's comment.
TRANSCRIPT: But then there was another interview – this is yesterday, same day – where somebody asked John McCain, how many houses do you have? And he said, I'm not sure. I'll have to check with my staff. True quote. I'm not sure. I'll have to check with my staff. So they asked his staff, and he said, at least four. At least four. Now, think about that. I guess if you think that being rich means you've got to make $5 million and if you don't know how many houses you have, then it's not surprising that you might think the economy was fundamentally strong. But if you're like me, and you've got one house, or you are like the millions of people who are struggling right now to keep up with their mortgage so they don't lose their home, you might have a different perspective. And by the way, the answer is John McCain has seven homes. So there's just a fundamental gap of understanding between John McCain's world and what people are going through every single day here in America. And you don't have to be – you don't have to be a Nobel Prize Laureate economist. You just have to have a little bit of a sense of what ordinary people are going through to understand that we can't afford eight more years or four more years or one more year of the same failed economic policies that George Bush has put in place.
Update 2: CNN is covering it (video soon) and Joe Klein called it a "devastating" gaffe by McCain.
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