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In Meg Whitman's first TV ad, the original verbiage about her three decades of living in California has been quietly changed to "many years," says the LAT's Shane Goldmacher, but only on Twitter so far. His blog post yesterday caught her fudging, and the Whitman campaign than refused to say when she had actually lived here.
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