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My niece, Katelyn, stationed at Baluud, Iraq was assigned, with others of her detachment, to be escort/guard/watcher for of ABC News as she covered John McCain's recent trip to Iraq . Martha Raddatz

Katelyn and her Captain stood directly behind Raddatz as she queried GIs walking past.

They kept count of the GIs and you should remember these numbers.

She asked 60 GIs who they planned to vote for in November.

 54 said John McCain, 4 for Obama and 2 for Hillary.

Katelyn called home and told her Mom and Dad to watch ABC news the next night because she was standing directly behind Raddatz and maybe they'd see her on TV.

Mom and Dad of course, called and emailed all the kinfolk to watch the newscast and maybe see Katelyn.

Well, of course, we all watched and what we saw wasn't a glimpse of Katelyn, but got a great view of skewed news.

After a dissertation on McCain's trip and speech, ABC showed 5 GIs being asked by Raddatz how they were going to vote in November; 3 for Obama and 2 for Clinton. No mention of the 54 for McCain.