Throughout the course of this seemingly never-ending campaign cycle, both candidates have provided America with some hilariously memorable, if not politically savvy, verbal failures. There was, of course, Barack Obama’s infamous line in Iowa, where he pondered the going price of arugula - a vegetable that’s not exactly in demand (if even heard of) in the region. There was also the stubborn John McCain, repeatedly asserting the existence of Czechoslovakia - a country that ceased to exist in 1993.

Then, there was the John McCain of this past Wednesday, when the Arizona senator revealed in an interview with Politico that he was “uncertain” of how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own.

“I think - I’ll have my staff get to you,” a fidgety McCain said. “It’s condominiums where - I’ll have them get to you.”

Depending on the source, John and Cindy McCain together own somewhere between seven and ten houses. No, it’s not a misprint. Seven to ten.

Even if it’s only seven houses. For the sake of reality, that’s six more houses than are owned by most Americans, and a full seven more than millions of others. The collective price tag on McCain’s Monopoly board? A modest $13,823,269.

But, of course, John McCain is just like you and me. I heard him say it on TV.