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New Yorker Cover Spotlights McCain's Houses, Foreclosure Crisis

Posted by Amanda, Think Progress at 4:06 AM on September 8, 2008.


An attempt to even the playing field after their controversial Obama cover, perhaps?

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The cover of the new issue of the New Yorker spotlights Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) multiple houses, contrasting his wealth with the foreclosure crisis many Americans are struggling with:



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ThinkProgress spoke with New Yorker spokeswoman Alexa Cassanos, who said that the McCain cover is in no way intended to be a response to the controversy over the satirical Obama cover in July.

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