Washington Post Metro columnist Marc Fisher tries to argue today that Kerry and Edwards are regular guys, despite living in Georgetown mansions with six bathrooms apiece:

“Both candidates can argue that even if they live in ultimate luxury, they remain frugal with other people’s money: A survey by Fundrace.org of presidential candidates’ spending on hotels as they crisscrossed the nation found that while Al Sharpton spent an eye-opening $3,598 per night on lodging and President Bush paid an average of $607 per night, Kerry spent $202 per night on lodging and Edwards $238.”

It gets a bit funnier when Fisher goes to the neighbors with their six-bedroom mansions to confirm that this prospective ticket is the slightest bit upper-crusty: “But neighbors reject the idea that Kerry or Edwards might be detached from the realities of ordinary American life. ‘We see John on Nantucket, and he’s one of the guys, one of us,’ [Mary] Raiser said of Kerry. ‘We’ve never felt him to be patrician.’”